Tooting Bec

Tooting Bec
St Anselm's Church and the tube station
Tooting Bec Location within Greater London
OS grid reference	TQ275715
London borough	Wandsworth
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LONDON
Postcode district	SW17
Dialling code	020

Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London

UK Parliament	Tooting
London Assembly	Merton and Wandsworth
List of places UK England London 51°25′43″N 0°10′00″W / 51.4286°N 0.1666°W / 51.4286; -0.1666

Tooting Bec is in the London Borough of Wandsworth, south London, England.

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History

Tooting Bec appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as "Totinges". It was held partly by St Mary de Bec-Hellouin Abbey and partly by Westminster Abbey. Its domesday assets were: 5 hides. It had 5½ ploughs, 13 acres (5.3 ha). It rendered £7.^[1]

The suffix ‘Bec’, (beck, meaning 'stream', in English), was added after Bec Abbey in Normandy, ('Bec' being the name of the river there). They were given land in the area by the Normans. Saint Anselm, the second Abbot of Bec, is reputed to have been a visitor to Tooting Bec before he succeeded Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury. Saint Anselm also gives his name to the Roman Catholic church at the corner of Balham High Road and Tooting Bec Road. A relief sculpture of Saint Anselm visiting the Totinges tribe (from which Tooting gets its name) is on the exterior of Wandsworth Town Hall.

Tooting Bec is on Stane Street, a Roman Road which linked London with Chichester to the southwest.

The area includes Tooting Commons, and Tooting Bec Lido, one of the oldest open-air fresh water swimming pools in Britain, first opened to the public in 1906, and also the largest freshwater swimming pool by surface area in the United Kingdom, being 100 yards (91.44 m) long and 33 yards (30.18 m) wide.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Tooting Bec Golf Club was founded in 1888. The club disappeared in the late 1920s.^[5]

The Finnish band Hanoi Rocks wrote the song "Tooting Bec Wreck" about their experiences living there in the early 1980s.

Nearest places

Nearest tube station

Tooting Bec tube station

Football Club

Tooting Bec F.C.^[6]

References

^ Surrey Domesday Book Archived 15 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ The Guardian: Making a splash - A celebration of swimming pool architecture
^ "South London Swimming Club". Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^ "Wandsworth Council". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^ "Tooting Bec Golf Club, London", "Golf’s Missing Links".
^ Tooting Bec FC (29 November 2012). "Tooting Bec FC". Pitchero.com. Retrieved 14 May 2016.

v t e London Borough of Wandsworth
Districts	Balham Battersea Clapham Earlsfield Furzedown Nine Elms Putney Putney Heath Putney Vale Roehampton Southfields Streatham Park Summerstown Tooting (including Tooting Graveney and Upper Tooting) Wandsworth West Hill
Attractions	Battersea Arts Centre Battersea Power Station Bridge Lane Theatre Chrysalis Theatre De Morgan Centre Grace Theatre New Covent Garden Market New Wandsworth Museum Pump House Gallery Theatre503 Theatre of the Dispossessed
Bridges and tunnels	Albert Bridge Battersea Bridge Battersea Railway Bridge Chelsea Bridge Fulham Railway Bridge Grosvenor Bridge Putney Bridge Wandsworth Bridge
Parks and open spaces	Battersea Park Clapham Common King George's Park Tooting Bec Common Wandsworth Common Wandsworth Park Wimbledon Park York Gardens
Constituencies	Battersea Putney Tooting
Tube and rail stations	Balham Battersea Park Clapham Junction Clapham South Earlsfield East Putney Putney Queenstown Road (Battersea) Southfields Tooting (in LB of Merton) Tooting Bec Tooting Broadway Wandsworth Common Wandsworth Town
Other topics	Council Listed buildings Grade I and II* Grade II People Public art Schools
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This page was last edited on 29 November 2023, at 23:32

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