Wandsworth
Wandsworth is a district of south-west London. Today the smart houses, cafes and bars close to the expansive green lung of Clapham Common are popular with young professionals working in the City, whilst cosmopolitan Tooting is home to a large South Asian community.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb with 18,100 residents
- Description: district of Southwest London
- Also known as: “London Borough of Wandsworth” and “Wandsworth Town”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wandsworth Bridge and Wandsworth Town railway station.
Wandsworth Bridge
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.
Wandsworth Town railway station
Railway station
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wandsworth Town railway station is in the London Borough of Wandsworth, in south London, in Travelcard Zone 2. It is 4 miles 60 chains down the line from London Waterloo. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway.
Fazl Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Ceddyfresse, Public domain.
The Fazl Mosque also known as The London Mosque, is the first purpose-built mosque in London, England. It was opened on 23 October 1926 in Southfields, Wandsworth.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fulham and Battersea.
Fulham
Suburb
Fulham is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, 3.7 miles southwest of Charing Cross. It lies in a loop on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea, with which it shares the area known as West Brompton.
Battersea
Suburb
Photo: Tosh Marshall, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Battersea is a large district in southwest London, part of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is centred 3.5 miles southwest of Charing Cross and also extends along the south bank of the Thames Tideway. It includes the 200-acre Battersea Park.
Putney
Suburb
Photo: David Edgar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Putney is an affluent district in southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, five miles southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
Wandsworth
- Categories: area of London and locality
- Location: Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.45703° or 51° 27′ 25″ northLongitude
-0.19326° or 0° 11′ 36″ westPopulation
18,100Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WANOpen location code
9C3XFR44+RMOpenStreetMap ID
node 21315206OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Wandsworth” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “واندزورث”
- Arabic: “واندزوورث”
- Asturian: “Wandsworth”
- Belarusian: “Ўондзўэрт”
- Belarusian: “Уондсуэрт”
- Bengali: “ওয়ান্ডসওর্থ”
- Catalan: “Wandsworth”
- Chinese: “旺兹沃思”
- Chinese: “旺兹沃斯”
- Chinese: “旺茲沃思”
- Chinese: “旺茲沃思區”
- Chinese: “灣斯禾夫”
- Chinese: “雲和”
- Czech: “Wandsworth”
- Dutch: “Wandsworth”
- Finnish: “Wandsworth”
- French: “Borough londonien de Wandsworth”
- French: “Wandsworth (ville)”
- French: “Wandsworth”
- Galician: “Wandsworth”
- German: “London Borough of Wandsworth”
- German: “Wandsworth”
- Greek: “Γουόντσουερθ”
- Gujarati: “વેન્ડ્સવર્થ”
- Hebrew: “וונדסוורת’”
- Hebrew: “וונדסוורת”
- Hebrew: “לונדון/וונדסוורת‘”
- Hindi: “वंड्सवर्थ बरो”
- Hindi: “वंड्सवर्थ”
- Hungarian: “Wandsworth”
- Irish: “London Borough of Wandsworth”
- Irish: “Wandsworth”
- Italian: “Borgo londinese di Wandsworth”
- Italian: “Municipio di Wandsworth”
- Italian: “Wandsworth”
- Japanese: “ワンズワース”
- Japanese: “ワンズワース区”
- Kannada: “ವ್ಯಾಂಡ್ಸ್ವರ್ತ್”
- Korean: “완즈워스 구”
- Korean: “원즈워스”
- Latin: “Wandsworth”
- Latvian: “Vandsvorta”
- Luxembourgish: “Wandsworth”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wandsworth”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “London Borough of Wandsworth”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wandsworth”
- Norwegian: “Wandsworth”
- Persian: “منطقه واندزوورث لندن”
- Persian: “وانزوورث”
- Polish: “London Borough of Wandsworth”
- Polish: “Wandsworth”
- Portuguese: “Wandsworth”
- Romanian: “Wandsworth”
- Russian: “Уондсуэрт”
- Scots: “London Borough of Wandsworth”
- Slovenian: “Wandsworth”
- South Azerbaijani: “وانزوورث”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Wandsworth”
- Spanish: “Wandsworth”
- Swedish: “London (Storbritannien)/Wandsworth”
- Swedish: “London Borough of Wandsworth”
- Swedish: “Wandsworth”
- Tamil: “வாண்ட்ஸஒர்த்”
- Telugu: “వాన్డస్ వర్త్”
- Turkish: “Wandsworth”
- Ukrainian: “Вандзверт”
- Ukrainian: “Вондзворт”
- Urdu: “لندن بورو وینڈزورتھ”
- Urdu: “واندسوورتھ”
- Urdu: “وینڈزورتھ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu Wandsworth của Luân Đôn”
- Welsh: “Wandsworth”
- Western Panjabi: “وینڈزورتھ”
- Yiddish: “לאנדאנער בארא פון וואנדזווערט”
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