The River Wandle winds through the London Borough of Sutton, its valley dotted with green spaces which provide both habitat for wildlife and leisure opportunities for residents and visitors. The Wandle Trail – a cycling and walking path, allows access to the river and some interesting historic sites along the way.

 

The landscape of Wandle Valley in Sutton was, as recently as the 1800s, rural with just a few watermills and villages but by the 20th century it became a built-up area, now restored in places to its former natural beauty.

 

In Poulter Park, pass by a beautiful man-made waterfall and see the sad remains of Bishopsford House, a Victorian Gothic mansion gutted by fire in 2001. Watercress Meadows are, as the name suggests, the site of the Sutton watercress industry which went into decline by the 1930s, partly as a result of a typhoid outbreak in Croydon.

 

In Beddington Park, the wonderful terracotta Canon Bridges’ Bridge, crosses the Wandle near Carew Manor’s 18th century octagonal brick dovecote.

 

Beddington Mill was variously a snuff mill and a flour mill with bakery.

All Saints Carshalton Churchyard

Church Hill Road,
Carshalton
SM5 3PD

Bandon Hill Cemetery

Plough Lane/Rockwood Avenue
Wallington
SM6 8JQ

Beddington Farmlands

Mile Rd, Croydon,
Wallington

Beddington Park - Guy Road Recreation Ground

Croydon Road/Church Road/London Road,
Beddington
SM6 7LF

Beddington Park - Manor Gardens

London Rd, Wallington,
Greater London
SM6 7BY

Beddington Park - River Gardens

London Rd,
Wallington,
Greater London
SM6 7DU

BedZed

Sandmartin Way
SM6 7DF

Bowmans Meadow

SM6 7DW

Carew Manor

Church Rd, Wallington, Greater London SM6, UK

Carshalton Park

Ruskin Road,
Carshalton,
SM5 3BQ

Carshalton Place

Carshalton Place
Carshalton
Greater London
SM5 3BH

Carshalton Ponds

High Street/Honeywood Walk,
Carshalton,
SM5 3NX

Carshalton War Memorial Gardens

Honeywood Walk,
Carshalton,
Greater London
SM5 3NX

Carshalton Water Tower

Carshalton,
Greater London
SM5 3NY

Church of St Mary the Virgin - Beddington

Church Path,
Wallington,
Greater London
SM6 7NH

Dale Park Recreation Ground

Dale Park Avenue,
Carshalton,
SM5 2HE

Elm Pond

London Road,
Wallington,
SM6 7DD

Festival Walk

Festival Walk,
Carshalton,
SM5 3NY

Greenshaw Wood

Wrythe Ln,
Sutton, Carshalton,
Greater London
SM5

Grove Park – Upper Mill

Carshalton,
Greater London
SM5 3BA

Hackbridge Green

Hackbridge Green,
SM6 7AU

Honeywood Museum

Carshalton,
Greater London
SM5 3PG

Lakeside

Wallington,
Greater London
SM6 7JY

Little Holland House

Little Holland House
Carshalton,
Greater London
SM5 3LW

Mallinson Green

Mallinson Rd,
Croydon,
Greater London
CR0 4UL

Margarets Pool

Waterhouse Road,
behind Honeywood House,
Carshalton,
SM5 3NY

Middleton Open Space

Middleton Rd,
Carshalton,
Greater London
SM5

Mill Green

Mill Green Road,
Hackbridge,
CR4 4HY

Poulter Park

Peterborough Rd
Carshalton
Greater London
SM5 1DT

Reigate Avenue Recreation Ground

Reigate Avenue ,
Sutton,
SM4 6PD

Revesby Wood

Revesby Road,
St Helier Estate,
Carshalton,
SM5 1EX

Richmond Green

Richmond Green, Croydon
Greater London
CR0

Rosehill Park East & West

Rosehill Sutton,
SM1 3LA

Rosehill Recreation Ground

Rose Hill,
Sutton,
Greater London
SM1 3EU

St Helier's Open Space

Wrythe Lane/Tweeddale Road,
St Helier,
SM5 1SL

St. Mary's Field

Wallington,
Greater London
SM6 8BT

Sutton Arena

Sutton Arena
Middleton Road
CARSHALTON
SM5 1SL

Sutton Common Recreation Ground

Sutton Common Road,
Sutton,
SM3 9EN

Sutton Ecology Centre

Sutton Ecology Centre
The Old Rectory
Festival Walk
Carshalton
SM5 3NY

The Grove Park

Carshalton,
Greater London
SM5 2JR

The Old Rectory - Carshalton

The Old Rectory,
Festival Walk,
Carshalton,
Greater London
SM5 3NY

The Warren

King’s Lane,
Sutton,
SM1 4RY

Thomas Wall Park

Green Lane,
Rosehill,
Carshalton,
SM4 6LX

Wallington Green

Wallington,
Greater London
SM6 0TW

Watercress Park

Spencer Road,
Hackbridge,
CR4 4LT

Wilderness Island

Mill Lane,
Carshalton,
SM5 2NH

Wrythe Green

Green Wrythe lane,
Carshalton,
SM5 2DW

Wrythe Recreation Ground

Wrythe Lane,
Carshalton,
SM1 3QW