Putney

Putney is a district in South-West London in the London Borough of Wandsworth in London, England.

Putney is situated on the southern bank of the Thames opposite Fulham. At St Mary's Church, Putney in 1647, representatives of the New Model Army debated the constitutional future of England.

Putney is also famous as

• the place of the retirement of the poet Algernon Swinburne.
• and of Theodore Watts, who looked after Swinburne
• the residence of Constance Garnett (translator of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment and other Russian literature).
• the childhood home of Leonard Woolf, husband of Virginia Woolf.

Nearest places:

• Wandsworth
• Roehampton
• Barnes
• Mortlake
• Chiswick

Nearest tube stations:

• East Putney tube station
• Putney Bridge tube station

Nearest railway station:

• Putney railway station

Referenced By