A History of Wandsworth Common

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Bolingbroke Grove — leads to a pond with two small islands, edged by willows and alive with mallards, geese and the occasional heron (plus a warning not to feed them, thus encouraging rats). The

16 CET Ch 2 First schooldays 17 Spencer Park with its middle-class homes lies north of the Common. Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, 3rd Viscount St John (1732 — 1787) married Lady Diana Spencer of the Marlborough family. It was not a happy marriage and was dissolved but it links the landowners around Wandsworth Common. 18 CET Ch 1 Infancy 19 THGLM Ch XX The Poet's spring at Lydiard Constantine 20 Helen Thomas, As it Was, (AIW) Ch 2 21 IPOS, Ch 2 London to Guildford

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areas of uncut grass have allowed a rich variety of wildflowers and shrubs to thrive and it is easy to understand why Thomas was so excited by the Common and all he found in it.

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