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Tooting

Tooting is a district in South London, forming part of the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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The place

Tooting is a district in South London, forming part of the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is located 5 miles south south-west of Charing Cross.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tooting

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
    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.

    1.5 km · football stadium opened in 2020 in London · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.9 km · the first purpose-built mosque in London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Clapham Common

    Clapham Common is a large triangular urban park in Clapham, south London, England. Originally common land for the parishes of Battersea and Clapham, it was converted to parkland under the terms of the Metropolitan Commons Act 1878.

    3.5 km · urban park in Clapham, south London · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wimbledon Park

    Wimbledon Park is the name of an urban park in Wimbledon and also of the suburb south and east of the park and the Wimbledon Park tube station. The park itself is 27 hectares in area.

    3.1 km · area and park in the London Borough of Merton, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    New Wimbledon Theatre

    The New Wimbledon Theatre is situated on the Broadway, Wimbledon, London, in the London Borough of Merton. It is a Grade II listed Edwardian theatre built by the theatre lover and entrepreneur, J. B. Mulholland, who at the time was also owner of the King's Theatre in Hammersmith and had owned the Theatre Metropole in Camberwell in the 1890's.

    2.7 km · theatre in Wimbledon, Merton, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Wat Buddhapadipa

    Wat Buddhapadipa or the Buddhapadipa Temple is a Thai Buddhist temple in Wimbledon, London. The temple is under Thai royal patronage.

    3.9 km · Thai Buddhist temple in London · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    No. 3 Court

    No. 3 Court is a tennis court at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, London.

    3.5 km · tennis stadium · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Morden Hall Park

    Morden Hall Park is a National Trust park on the banks of the Wandle in Morden, south London. Its several buildings and associated parking included, it is 125 acres of predominantly parkland.

    3.4 km · park in Morden, London · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Sacred Heart Church

    Sacred Heart Church is a Catholic parish church in Wimbledon, South West London initially run by the Jesuits, that serves the Catholic community of Wimbledon and surrounding areas. It is in the Archdiocese of Southwark and is situated next to Wimbledon College and Donhead Preparatory School.

    3.9 km · Catholic church in Wimbledon, London, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Mary's Church, Wimbledon

    St Mary's Church, Wimbledon, is a Church of England church and is part of the Parish of Wimbledon, south-west London, England. It has existed since the 12th century and may be the church recorded in the Domesday Book in the Mortlake Hundred.

    3.2 km · church in Wimbledon, London · 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.

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Getting to Tooting

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 21 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 31 km · London Luton (LTN), 52 km
Stations
Balham tube station, 1.9 km · Morden tube station, 3.5 km · Wimbledon railway station, 3 km · Colliers Wood, 1.4 km · South Wimbledon tube station, 2.4 km
  • Luton, Luton → Tooting
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £6–8
  • London, Essex → Tooting
    10 km · quickest by road, 45 min · £1–1.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Tooting
    167 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £19–25
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tooting

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 Tooting. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inWhile the runway is usable by aircraft up to Boeing 737/Airbus A320 size, it is prohibited for airline operators to sell tickets for flights in and out of the airport, thus there are no scheduled or holiday charter flights from the airport.

From Wikivoyage: London/South, 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

    114 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    314 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    405 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    566 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    602 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tooting

Tooting is 9 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.