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Putney Embankment and Putney Bridge

Historic site · Putney, England

Putney Embankment, SW15 1LB, is a free public riverside promenade running to a working road bridge; the boathouses along it are private clubs, and Putney Pier marks one end of the Championship Course. The Wandsworth half of the bridge is entered on the National Heritage List for England as 'PUTNEY BRIDGE (THAT PART IN WANDSWORTH)', listed Grade II, NHLE 1357672.

History

The Grade II listing of the Wandsworth half was made on 7 April 1983 as list entry 1357672. The first bridge on the site, Fulham Bridge, opened in 1729 and replaced a ferry. The Putney Embankment Conservation Area is one of the borough's 46 designated conservation areas. Putney Bridge Underground station is in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham; the nearest stations on the Wandsworth side are Putney, on South Western Railway, 477 m away, and East Putney, on the District line, 660 m. Putney Pier takes river-bus route RB6 and buses 22, 265, 378 and 485.

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Putney Embankment, Putney, London SW15 1LB

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