The non-denominational Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium, in which a number of well-known people are buried, is north and east of the housing estate.

[7] Shortly before the First World War, 175 acres were added to Wimbledon Common, including much of Newlands Farm, which had been here since the Middle Ages.

The inn was reputedly a haunt of the highwayman Jerry Abershawe until his execution in 1795,[11] after which his body was displayed in a gibbet at Putney Vale.

[10] In 1912 Kenelm Lee Guinness, a member of the brewing dynasty and a motor racer, acquired the by-then disused Bald Faced Stag inn, where he developed a more efficient sparking plug for use in car and aircraft engines.

In the inter-war years KLG sparking plugs made at Putney Vale were used in the majority of British cars.

This included Henry Segrave's Golden Arrow and Malcolm Campbell's Blue Bird series, which set world land speed records.

[13] In 1927 Smith & Sons bought KLG and in the 1930s built a new spark plug factory, in an Art Deco style, on the Putney Vale site.

[15] Beyond relatively large green buffers – playing fields, a golf course, Richmond Park, Wimbledon Common and Putney Heath – and beyond adjoining Roehampton Vale, are: