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Tooting is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
The BBC comedy series Citizen Smith was set in Tooting (although allegedly partially filmed in West London) and popularized the cry "Freedom for Tooting!". Star of the series Wolfie Smith (played by Robert Lindsay) was a beret-hatted Communist "leftie" type, member of revolutionary political organisation the Tooting Popular Front.
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History
Tooting has been settled since pre-Saxon times, and its name means "the dwelling of the Sons of Totas".
The Romans built a road from London (Londinium) to Chichester (Regnum) which passed through Tooting. Tooting High Street is built on this road (Stane Street).
- 666
- Tooting and Streatham (then Toting-cum-Stretham) given to the Abbey of Chertsey.
- 900
- Suene (Sweyn), believed to be a viking, given the Land by Edward the Confessor.
- 933
- King Athelstan of England gave lands including Totinge (Tooting) to the family of Chertsey Minster.
- 1086
- Tooting Bec and Tooting Graveney appear on the Domesday survey as two distinct areas, Upper and Lower Tooting.
- 1703
- Citizen Daniel Defoe was a Tooting Presbyterian Minister in hiding.
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