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London Borough of Wandsworth

Wandsworth is a London borough in South West London, England.

London Borough of Wandsworth
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The place

Wandsworth is a London borough in South West London, England. It forms part of Inner London and has an estimated population of 329,677 inhabitants. Its main communities are Battersea, Balham, Putney, Tooting and Wandsworth Town.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around London Borough of Wandsworth

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Stamford Bridge

    Stamford Bridge is a football stadium in Fulham, in the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, in West London. It is the home of Premier League club Chelsea.

    2.7 km · association football stadium in London, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Craven Cottage

    Craven Cottage is a football stadium in Fulham, West London, England, which has been the home of Fulham F.C. since 1896. The ground's capacity is 28,107; the record attendance is 49,335, for a game against Millwall in 1938.

    2.7 km · football stadium in Fulham, London · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Chelsea Physic Garden

    The Chelsea Physic Garden was established as the Apothecaries' Garden in London, England, in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries to grow plants to be used as medicines. This four-acre physic garden, the term here referring to the science of healing, is among the oldest botanical gardens in Britain, after the University of Oxford Botanic Garden.

    3.8 km · botanical garden in London · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Battersea Park

    Battersea Park is a 200-acre green space at Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth in London. It is situated on the south bank of the River Thames opposite Chelsea and was opened in 1858.

    3.6 km · park in the Borough of Wandsworth, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Wandsworth Bridge

    Wandsworth Bridge crosses the River Thames in west London. It carries the A217 road between the area of Battersea, near Wandsworth Town Station, in the London Borough of Wandsworth on the south of the river, and the areas of Sands End and Parsons Green, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, on the north side.

    1 km · bridge in London, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Brompton Cemetery

    Brompton Cemetery is, since 1852, the first London cemetery to be Crown property, managed by The Royal Parks, in West Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries.

    3.1 km · cemetery near Earl's Court in South West London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Plough Lane

    Plough Lane, currently known as the Cherry Red Records Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose football stadium in Wimbledon, south-west London, which has been the home of AFC Wimbledon since 3 November 2020. A groundshare with rugby league side London Broncos began in 2022.

    2.9 km · football stadium opened in 2020 in London · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    The London Mosque

    The Fazl Mosque also known as The London Mosque, is the first purpose-built mosque in London, England. It was opened on 3 October 1926 in Southfields, Wandsworth.

    1.1 km · the first purpose-built mosque in London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    University of Roehampton

    The University of Roehampton is a public research university in Roehampton, London. Founded as the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, the university was established by four institutions, founded in the 19th century, which today make up the university's constituent colleges: Digby Stuart College, Froebel College, Southlands College and Whitelands College.

    3.3 km · university in Wandsworth, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Institute of Cancer Research

    The Institute of Cancer Research is a public research institute and a member institution of the University of London in London, United Kingdom, specialising in oncology. It was founded in 1909 as a research department of the Royal Marsden Hospital and joined the University of London in 2003.

    3.9 km · research institute in London, England · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to London Borough of Wandsworth

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 18 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 34 km · London Luton (LTN), 48 km
Stations
Clapham Junction railway station, 1.8 km · Barons Court tube station, 3.9 km · Earl’s Court tube station, 3.8 km · Balham tube station, 3.3 km · West Kensington tube station, 3.8 km
  • Luton, Luton → London Borough of Wandsworth
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £6–8
  • London, Essex → London Borough of Wandsworth
    8 km · quickest by road, 41 min · £1
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → London Borough of Wandsworth
    163 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for London Borough of Wandsworth

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for London Borough of Wandsworth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in}} {{go | name | url | address | long | phone | hours | wikidata=Q800751 | lastedit=2024-08-05 | content=Services: Avanti West Coast from the West Midlands, the North East, North Wales and Scotland, including Watford, Birmingham Airport (), Birmingham New Street, Manchester, Liverpool Llandudno Junction, Holyhead with ferries from and (), Oxenholme Lake District and Glasgow.
  • Get inConnections at London Moorgate are: |wikidata=Q801210}} {{go | name | url | address | long | phone | hours | wikidata=Q801124 | lastedit=2024-08-05 | content=Services: Greater Anglia from the East of England including Hertford, Cambridge, Colchester, Southend-on-Sea, Southend Airport (), Harwich with ferries from (), and Norwich.
  • Get inSouthern from the South East including Gatwick Airport (), Bognor Regis, Epsom and Portsmouth with ferries from and ().
  • Get inAlso from Harwich (via A120, ferries from Hook of Holland, Netherlands).
  • Get inFastest route from Fishguard (ferries from Rosslare, Ireland).

From Wikivoyage: London, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    115 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    313 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    405 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    562 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    598 km

If you know how people move in London Borough of Wandsworth – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to London Borough of Wandsworth

London Borough of Wandsworth is 7 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • FulhamArea of west London, England2.5 km
  • South Kensingtonarea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and partly in the City of Westminster, London, England4 km
  • Batterseaarea of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England, UK2 km
  • Wandsworthdistrict of Southwest London300 m
  • Putneytown in the London Borough of Wandsworth, England, UK2 km
  • Barnesdistrict in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England3.4 km