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Roehampton is an important location in H. G. Wells' novel The Sleeper Awakes. Roehampton, along with five other locations in London, including Wimbledon Park, Norwood, Blackheath and Shooter's Hill, form a series of rudimentary airports known as "Flying Stages". The Flying Stage at Roehampton is the scene for a major battle in the plot.
Richmond Park is the largest of London's Royal Parks. [7] It is the second-largest park in London (after the 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) Lee Valley Park, whose linear shaped area extends beyond the M25 into Hertfordshire and Essex) and is Britain's second-largest urban walled park after Sutton Park, [1] Birmingham.
Kingston Vale with Kingston Hill is a district in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in south London. It is a residential area between Richmond Park, the much smaller Putney Vale, Wimbledon Common, Coombe/Coombe Hill and the Norbiton part of the very old borough.
The park is served by Transport for London buses 74, 85, 170, 337, 424 which stop on the Upper Richmond road or Putney Heath, Barnes railway station (Southwestern Railway) is a 10 minute walk from the north gate of the lane. There is an ubitricity electric car charging station on Cortis road, on the eastern side of the Lane. [15]
A map showing the Putney ward of Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916. Putney is an ancient parish which covered 9.11 km 2 (3 + 17 ⁄ 32 sq mi) in the Hundred of Brixton in the county of Surrey. Its area has been reduced by the loss of Roehampton to the south-west, an offshoot hamlet that conserved more of its own clustered ...
At the second A3 crossing, the walk intersects the Capital Ring walking route before entering Richmond Park, the largest of London's Royal Parks, through Robin Hood Gate. The path then follows the brook as it flows northeast for 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) through the park, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a National Nature Reserve .
Drinking Fountain, Roehampton, 2014 The Drinking Fountain is a Grade II-listed monument at Roehampton Lane , Roehampton , London SW15. It was built in 1882, and designed by J. C. Radford .
This is a list of cycle routes in London that have been waymarked with formal route signage include 'Cycleways' (including 'Cycle Superhighways' and 'Quietways) and the older London Cycle Network, all designated by the local government body Transport for London (TfL), National Cycle Network routes designated by the sustainable transport charity Sustrans, and miscellaneous 'Greenways' created ...