Putney Park Lane is an unmade road and public

urban park An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a municipal park (North America) or a public park, public open space, or municipal gardens ( UK), is a park in cities and other incorporated places that offer recreation and green space to r ...

in the London Borough of Wandsworth between

Putney Putney () is a district of southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. History Putney is an ancient paris ...

and

Roehampton Roehampton is an area in southwest London, in the Putney SW15 postal district, and takes up a far western strip running north to south of the London Borough of Wandsworth. It contains a number of large council house estates and is home to the U ...

town centres.

Geography

The lane is an unmade road owned and managed by Wandsworth Borough Council, it is gated at both ends and runs alongside a public road with the same name. It spans from Upper Richmond road at the north end to Putney Heath at the south end and is 1,683 metres long, with an area of 0.9ha. The lane is in the Wandsworth Archaeological Priority Area and runs along the edge of the Dover House Estate Conservation Area.

History

Putney Park Lane dates from the 18th century, its entrance lodges at the gates to the Upper Richmond Road and Putney Heath still stand and there are remnants of other former entrances along the lane. The Putney Park estate was a large working deer park first recorded in archives in 1274, the house of which is thought to have been on The Pleasance area which the lane bends around

Features

Halfway up on the east side of the Lane is St Margaret's Church, a former Baptist and then Presbyterian chapel, which was consecrated into the Church of England in 1912. In 2021 the lane area by the church will be restored to prevent flooding. In The Pleasance there is a natural playground including logs, stepping stones and swings.

Wildlife

The Lane is a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation and provides a

wildlife corridor A wildlife corridor, habitat corridor, or green corridor is an area of habitat connecting wildlife populations separated by human activities or structures (such as roads, development, or logging). This allows an exchange of individuals between ...

between

Putney Heath Wimbledon Common is a large open space in Wimbledon, southwest London. There are three named areas: Wimbledon Common, Putney Heath, and Putney Lower Common, which together are managed under the name Wimbledon and Putney Commons totalling 46 ...

and the

Putney Lower Common Putney Lower Common is an open parkland space in the London Borough of Wandsworth between the town centres of Putney and Barnes. It is part of Wimbledon and Putney Commons, lying 1.5 miles from the rest of the common area. Geography The comm ...

area. There are mature trees and large Hollies and the grassland areas have a variety of wayside flowers such as pellitory-of-the-wall and yellow corydalis, there is also regenerating elm scrub where the rare

white-letter hairstreak The white-letter hairstreak (''Satyrium w-album'') is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Appearance and behaviour A dark little butterfly that spends the majority of its life in the tree tops, feeding on honeydew (secretion), honeydew, making ...

butterfly has been recorded. In The Pleasance area stag beetles and hedgehogs have been recorded.

Transport

The park is served by Transport for London buses 74, 85, 170, 337, 424 which stop on the Upper Richmond road or Putney Heath,

Barnes railway station Barnes railway station is a Grade II listed station in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in southwest London, and is in Travelcard Zone 3. It is down the line from . The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Weste ...

(Southwestern Railway) is a 10 minute walk from the north gate of the lane. There is an ubitricity electric car charging station on Cortis road, on the eastern side of the Lane.

References

External links

Wandsworth Borough Council pages
{{Parks and open spaces in London Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Wandsworth Putney