utney Park Lane, and Summerfield behind it. Passing down the lane
from the church and entering Howard's Lane we find a district of new
houses to the north, in straight rows at regular intervals, gauged,
apparently, by the size of the backyards. To the south one row of small
cottages, Upper Park Fields, juts out into the market-gardens, which,
with the fields behind, are still free from buildings. At the western
end of Howard's Lane is a large tennis-ground belonging to a local club,
while beyond is seen the advance of bricks and mortar towards the west.
Carmalt Gardens leads into the Upper Richmond Road at its best part, for
all the houses here are of a good style and size. At the corner of
Gwendolen Avenue stands a Wesleyan Methodist church of stone, with a
square tower, and south a few houses flank it; but though all this land
was lately open it is now built over. At the St. John's Road, however,
buildings have rapidly risen, and the Church of St. John at the corner
of the Ravenna Road is now surrounded by a well-built-up neighbourhood.
Cambalt Road is also new, with strange types of houses, and behind this,
again, is another avenue, Chartfield Road, filled with new houses,
running through to Putney Hill. South of this rise the well-wooded
grounds of the large houses on the hill, with fields to the westward.

And thus we take leave of Putney, one of the pleasantest of the London
suburbs, as well as the most accessible. The immense increase in the
number of houses in late years testifies to its popularity; but there is
still an almost unlimited extent of open ground which cannot be covered;
and with wood and water, common and hill, there will always be an
element of freshness and openness in Putney seldom to be obtained so
near London.

[Illustration: PUTNEY DISTRICT.

Published by A. & C. Black, London.]

INDEX

Abershaw, Jeremiah, 86, 89

Addison, 70

Alphery, Mickephor, 17

Alton Road, 88

Arundel House, 51

Ashburton House, 83

Barn Elms, 76

Barnes Common, 77, 91

Beavor Lodge, 17

Bessborough Road, 88

Beverley Brook, 89

Billington, Mrs., 41

Bishop's Park, 59, 63

Blythe House, 23

Bolingbroke House, 49

Bonner, Bishop, 61

Bowling-Green House, 85

Bradmore House, 8

Brandenburg, Anspach, Margravine, 40

Brandenburg House, 39

Bristol House, 85

Broadway, The, 19

Brook Green, 20

Brook Green Almshouses, 20

Broom House, 66

Buckingham, Duke of, 77

Bur