Willington Independent Preparatory School is situated in Wimbledon, south-west London.

It was situated in Putney, London, to cater for the boys of the growing middle class population of the area.

[3] After being housed at other villa-type sites in West Putney,[1] the school moved to 5 Colinette Road in 1916,[4] where it remained until 1990.

[5] By the early 1900s it had a role of about seventy boys[4] including, from 1910 to 1921, about ten boarders, looked after by a matron.

[6] After the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the majority of boys were evacuated to Uckfield in Sussex, and after fall of France in 1940 to Tawstock Court in Devon.