Putney

This is an article about the place in London. For other uses of the name, see Putney (disambiguation).

Putney is an place in the London Borough of Wandsworth in south west London.

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.

The University Boat Race, first raced for in 1829 in Henley-on-Thames, has had Putney as its starting point since 1845. Since 1856 it has been an annual event, beginning at the University Stone, just upstream from Putney Bridge. Several rowing clubs are based on the Thames there, including London Rowing Club, Thames Rowing Club, Imperial College Boat Club and Vesta Rowing Club.

Famous residents

• Algernon Swinburne the poet
• Theodore Watts, who looked after Swinburne
• Constance Garnett, translator of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, and other Russian literature.
• Leonard Woolf, husband of Virginia Woolf grew up in Putney
• Edvard Benes, the second President of Czechoslovakia, lived in Gwendolen Avenue during his exile in London from October 1938 to the end of World War II
• Clement Attlee was born, brought up and cremated in Putney.
• Edward Gibbon, historian, was born in Putney, and gave his name to the local Telephone Exchange.

Nearest places:

• Wandsworth
• Roehampton
• Barnes
• Mortlake
• Chiswick

Nearest tube stations:

• East Putney tube station
• Putney Bridge tube station

Nearest railway station:

• Putney railway station