Tooting Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Tooting is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth in London, England.
The BBC comedy series Citizen Smith was set in Tooting (although allegedly partially filmed in West London) and popularized the cry "Freedom for Tooting!". Star of the series Wolfie Smith (played by Robert Lindsay) was a beret-hatted Communist "leftie" type, member of revolutionary political organisation the Tooting Popular Front.
Nearest places:
Nearest tube stations:- Tooting Broadway tube station
- Tooting Bec tube station
- Balham tube station
- Colliers Wood tube station
- South Wimbledon tube station
- Tooting railway station
- Balham railway station
- Hayden's Road railway station
History
Tooting has been settled since pre-Saxon times, and its name means "the dwelling of the Sons of Totas". The Romans built a road from London (Londinium) to Chichester (Regnum) which passed through Tooting. Tooting High Street is built on this road (Stane Street).
;666 CE : Tooting and Streatham (then Toting-cum-Stretham) given to the Abbey of Chertsey. ;900 CE : Suene (Sweyn), believed to be a viking, given the Land by Edward the Confessor. ;933 CE : King Athelstan of England gave lands including Totinge (Tooting) to the family of Chertsey Minster. ;1086 CE : Tooting Bec and Tooting Graveney appear on the Domesday survey as two distinct areas, Upper and Lower Tooting. ;1703 CE : Citizen Daniel Defoe was a Tooting Presbyterian Minister in hiding.