Tooting Graveney, Surrey

Historical Description

Tooting Graveney, a suburban parish in Surrey, with stations on the L. & S.W.R. and L.B. & S.C.R., 7 miles from London, and 3 E of Wimbledon. It is within the county of London and the parliamentary borough of Wandsworth. It has a post office under London SW, and a police station. There are many elegant seats and villas, and some extensive nursery grounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. The church of St Nicholas, rebuilt in 1833 and enlarged in 1889, is a structure of brick in the Gothic style. There are Baptist, Congregational, and Wesleyan chapels. Daniel Defoe, the author of " Robinson Crusoe," was a resident at Tooting in 1688.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Surrey History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Surrey online.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Tooting Graveney from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tooting, Lower, or Tooting-Graveney (St. Nicholas))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Tooting Graveney are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Surrey papers online:

• Surrey Mirror
• Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser
• Surrey Advertiser

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Surrey, 1662-1668 is available on the Heraldry page.