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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 ( sq mi) in the Hundred of Brixton in the county of Surrey.
Putney lies six miles south-west of the City and County of the City of London border, and was historically in the county of Surrey. Putney falls within the London borough council of Wandsworth, under the Greater London Authority. It is in the SW15 postcode district. The post town for Putney is London.
Type: Town with 77,100 residents. Description: district in south-west London, England. Categories: area of London and locality. Location: Wandsworth, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe. View on OpenStreetMap.
There has been a ferry at Putney possibly since Roman times and the Domesday Book documents a 20-shilling payment from a ferry toll. The ferry has royal links, cropping up in the household accounts of Edward I (1272 - 1307). For his troubles in transporting the royals across the Thames, Robert the Ferryman of Putney received 3s 6d (17 1/2 p).
5 giorni fa · On the escape of the king from Hampton, on the 13th of November, the army quitted Putney, after a residence of three months. After the battle of Brentford, the Earl of Essex determined to follow the king into Surrey, and a bridge of boats was constructed for that purpose between Fulham and Putney.
Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Putney like this: Putney, town and par., Surrey, on right bank of river Thames, opposite Fulham, and within the parliamentary limits of Wandsworth, 5f miles SW. of Waterloo sta., London, by rail, and 7 miles from London ...
