Tooting Bec

Tooting Bec is within the London Borough of Wandsworth, south London, England. It is known as after Bec Abbey in Normandy, which turned into given land in the location after the Norman Conquest. Saint Anselm, the second one Abbot of Bec, is reputed to have been a vacationer to Tooting Bec earlier than he succeeded Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury. Saint Anselm also gives his name to the Roman Catholic church on the corner of Balham High Road and Tooting Bec Road. A remedy sculpture of Saint Anselm journeying the Totinges tribe is on the outdoors of Wandsworth Town Hall.

Tooting Bec is on Stane Street, a Roman Road which connected London with Chichester to the southwest. Tooting Bec appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as "Totinges". It become held partially via St Mary de Bec-Hellouin Abbey and partly by means of Westminster Abbey. Its domesday assets were: 5 hides. It had 5½ ploughs, thirteen acres. It rendered £7. The vicinity consists of Tooting Commons, and Tooting Bec Lido, one of the oldest open-air fresh water swimming pools in Britain, first opened to the general public in 1906, and additionally the most important freshwater swimming pool via floor area inside the United Kingdom, being 100 yards long and 33 yards huge.