Parsons Green (The green)

From the late 17th-century onwards, the area surrounding the green became the focus for fine houses and grounds built by merchants and the gentry within easy distance of London, yet in a more salubrious setting than the urban environs.

A number of Georgian houses have survived, some of them replacing earlier Tudor and Elizabethan buildings.

[2] At the end of the 19th-century, the District Railway was extended towards the Thames and Wimbledon.

In 1880 an eponymous railway station was opened a few hundred yards from the northernmost corner of the green.

Lady Margaret School, housed in several period buildings, is situated on its eastern side.