Tooting

Tooting is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth in south London.

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The BBC comedy series Citizen Smith was set in Tooting (although allegedly partly filmed in West London) and popularised 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.

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Tooting has a larger than average south Asian population (over 20% in parts), which has endowed the suburb with a distinctive streetscape. Tooting High Road has a string of curry houses and Indian sweet shops. However, in recent times the town has become more cosmopolitan, with a variety of bars and a wide range of world cuisines including Italian, Chinese, Japanese and many others.

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Its position on the Northern Line — with two stations at the top and the bottom of the hill that slopes down the High Road, Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway — has led to its becoming a popular place to live for young professionals, particularly in the media and financial sectors. This has caused the continuing gentrification of Tooting.

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The large open area of Tooting Bec common lies at the northern end of Tooting. The common includes Tooting Bec Lido, the largest open air pool in Europe which is 90 metres long.

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The Member of Parliament for Tooting is Sadiq Khan, first elected at the 2005 General Election to represent the parliamentary constituency of Tooting.

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In 2005, a crater on Mars was named after Tooting http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/mars/marscrat.html

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Nearest places:

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• Balham
• Mitcham
• Wimbledon
• Morden
• Streatham
• Furzedown

Nearest tube stations:

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• Tooting Broadway tube station
• Tooting Bec tube station
• Balham tube station
• Colliers Wood tube station
• South Wimbledon tube station

Nearest railway stations:

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• Tooting railway station
• Balham railway station
• Wandsworth Common railway station
• Hayden's Road railway station
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London Borough of Wandsworth: The London Borough of Wandsworth is a London borough in southwest London. It was formed in 1965 from the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and much of the former Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth, but excluding Clapham and most of Streatham, both of which were transferred to the London Borough of L...

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