Please note: this is the old RPWBRA web site, kept for historical information only. Please check our
new web site for up-to-date information.
Raynes Park and West Barnes Residents' Association
Serving the community since 1928
About the Raynes Park and West Barnes area
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The approximate area served by the Residents' Association can be seen in this map from UK StreetMap
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Alternatively, you can see a streetmap superimposed on aerial photographs of the northern and southern sections of the Association's catchment area. (This only works properly with certain browsers, but it's a fascinating effect if you can get it.)
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Up-to-date statistics about local property prices, etc., are available from Up My Street (this link takes you straight to the information for the area centred on Linkway, which is roughly at the centre of the Association's area ; you can search for a different postcode if necessary)
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What is Raynes Park like in the 21st century? - statistics from the 2001 census
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The Environment Agency's What's in your backyard ? pages can provide the latest information about flood risk and other environmental problems. In particular, they have pages of flood warnings for :
and also flood maps, though these are not on a very large scale.
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Similar information, particularly aimed at house purchasers, is also available from homecheck.co.uk
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The London Noise Map (this link is to a map centred on Linkway, which shows the whole of the Association area)
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Merton crime statistics from the Home Office
Public transport
- "Spider maps" (in Adobe Acrobat format) of:
- Bus timetables (mainly in Adobe Acrobat format):
- 57 (Kingston-Wimbledon-Streatham Hill)
- 131 (Kingston-New
Malden-Wimbledon)
- 152 (New Malden-Mitcham-Pollards Hill)
- 162 (Morden-Raynes Park-Wimbledon)
- 200 (Mitcham-Wimbledon-Raynes Park)
- K5 (Ham-Kingston-New Malden-Morden)
- N77 (night bus Aldwych-Trafalgar Square-Wimbledon-Tolworth)
- Live train departure boards for:
More information about local trains, including full timetables, is available from South West Trains. For journeys to other parts of London, especially where you have to change between trains and buses, etc., use Transport for London's Journey Planner.
History
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Local historian Richard Milward has written this brief history of the West Barnes and Grand Drive area
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The St. Mary's, Merton parish magazine for August & September 2001 included a short article about the Rayne family
- Local newspaper articles:
Pictures
Raynes Park and West Barnes feature in:
Music
- The band Grand Drive named themselves after the road near which one of their members used to live
- Jeff Beck's album "Rough and Ready" (reviewed here by "Rolling Stone" magazine) includes a track called "Raynes Park Blues", or "Max's Tune", because it was composed by Max Middleton while he was living in this area
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