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Tooting Bec Lido

Attraction · Tooting, England

Tooting Bec Lido sits on Tooting Bec Common at Tooting Bec Road, SW16 1RU. It is an unheated outdoor freshwater pool of 100 yd (91.4 m) by 33 yd (30.2 m), and the operator publishes a live water temperature. The published times are Monday to Friday 6.00am to 5.00pm; the pool is seasonal and no weekend hours are published, so none are given here.

History

A condition of its construction was that it be concealed from views across the common behind an earth ramp, which survives, and the changing cubicles are painted in alternating red, yellow and green doors. It is owned by the London Borough of Wandsworth and run by Places Leisure, whose page signs off 'Places Leisure, agent for Wandsworth Council'. The lido carries no entry on the National Heritage List for England. Despite the name, Tooting Bec is not the nearest station: Streatham, on Southern and Thameslink, is 861 m away and Streatham Hill, on Southern, 1,072 m, both in the London Borough of Lambeth, with Tooting Bec Underground 1,496 m and Balham 1,573 m.

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Tooting Bec Road, Tooting, London SW16 1RU

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