Streets in Wandsworth - Garratt Lane, Lavender Hill, Clapham Common Northside (Paperback)

Chapters: Garratt Lane, Lavender Hill, Clapham Common Northside. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Garratt Lane is a road in the borough of Wandsworth, London. It connects Wandsworth High Street to Tooting Broadway and is approximately four kilometres long. It passes through both Earlsfield and Summerstown. Garratt Lane has mixed usage along its length. In the north it contains newly developed stores including a large inside shopping mall. The stretch between Allfarthing Lane and Burntwood Lane is mainly shops of the individually owned type. The southern portion is mainly residential, although around Summertown the are a few light industries and the Wimbledon Stadium. The Southern-most part of Garratt Lane is unusual in that two parallel streets exchanged names. The original Garratt Lane was a narrower street than Garratt Terrace, which was the main connection to Tooting Broadway. Many people mistakenly called it Garratt Lane, so it was agreed to exchange the names. There are a number of public houses along the length of the lane, including the Old Sergeant and the Leather Bottle, both of which date to the 18th Century. The latter figured in the election of the Mayor of Garratt See the play entitled 'The Mayor of Garratt' by Samuel Foote at Garratt Lane is the major north-south route in West london, south of the River Thames. This is due to the Lane following the banks of the River Wandle, and consequently having no hill in its length. Industries grew up in the 18th and 19th centuries along the eastern side of the Wandle, which caused the country lane to become a high traffic road. A 1786 map shows and names Garratt Lane running approximately on its present route. This map also shows two roads that intersect with Garratt Lane, Half Farthing Lane...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=173835