5 minutes walk from Southfields tube station
Free parking is available on any side street all day except between 1.30pm and 2.30pm when it is pay and display only on the main road.
UNDERGROUND
Southields tube station
District Line to or from Wimbledon
toward or from Edgware Road or Westminster
BUSES
Bus 39 between Clapham and Putney
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Southfields is a suburban district in the London Borough of Wandsworth,. Southfields is located partly in the SW18 postcode area and partly in SW19, near Wimbledon.
Southfields takes its name from the old manorial system, where it was known as the South Field of the manor of Dunsford. The earlier name for the area dates back at least to the year 1247.
Until the late 19th century Southfields was still fields, situated between the more developed villages of Wimbledon and Putney. Several of the former pathways through the fields form the routes of parts of today's road system, in particular Wimbledon Park Road and its continuation through Southfields Passage, which was the field path from Wimbledon to Wandsworth, Kimber Road and The Baulk, both of which were field paths and can be seen on old maps of the area. When the District & London & South Western Railway from Wimbledon to Putney Bridge opened in June 1889, the area started to take off, with the first school opening a year later on Merton Road, another of the main thoroughfares that were formerly paths through fields.
It attracts people from all over due to the transport links with the District Line and South West Trains, its parks and primary schools.