Tour Overview
Come and meet the neighbours!
This 1.5 mile historical walk lifts the net curtains on the nefarious deeds that occurred behind the genteel facades of this leafy suburban district of London.
It will also help you consider how the "red lines" of morality shift over time.
The walk will take 1-2 hours to complete. You will need good walking shoes, as parts of the walk are on unmade roads.
You can stop off for food in three locations: At the start of the walk next to Putney Park Lane, in the middle of the walk next to Parkside and at the end of the walk in Putney town centre.
The walk begins at Barnes Station which can be reached by mainline rail within 15 minutes from central London and several bus routes. The walk ends at Putney Station on the same railway line.
The walk deals with adult themes (death, treachery, corruption, sexuality, religion and discrimination).
Stops
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Stop 1: Barnes Railway Station
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Stop 2: The Death of Peter Rampsden
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Stop 3: Marc Bolan Car Crash Site
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Stop 4: The "9th worst Briton in the last 1,000 years"
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Stop 5: Slag
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Stop 6: Corruption in Football
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Stop 7: House of the Vanities
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Stop 8: Nuclear secrets and Muslim Heresy
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Stop 9: Housing for women
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Stop 10: Anti-Semitism and the Bloomsbury Set's Sexual Fluidity
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Stop 11: Mathematics from God
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Stop 12: Heroic recalcitrance
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Stop 13: Dishonour
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Stop 14: Deceived by Britain, Hitler and Stalin
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Stop 15: Faith or Medicine?
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Stop 16: ISIS and the Jacobites
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Stop 17: Love Conquers
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Stop 18: Illegitimacy in Victorian England
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Stop 19: Contested wills, exhumation and missing bodies
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Stop 20: The world's gayest church
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Stop 21: A Horror Tale
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