Other current and historical names
Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Wimbledon within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.
Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew
Wimbledon, town and par., Surrey, at the NE. extremity of Wimbledon Common, 7½ miles SW. of Waterloo Station, London, by rail, 3220 ac. (47 water), pop. 15,950. Good residences, chiefly modern villas, are numerous, many families having been attracted to Wimbledon by the salubrity of the climate, Wimbledon Common being the most breezy bit of open country adjoining London. There is a golfing course on the Common, where also the annual competition of the National Rifle Association is held in July. At the S. of the Common there was formerly an entrenched camp.