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Tooting Broadway

Wandsworth

'Tooting' may mean the people of a man called Tota.

The meaning is disputed: it may instead come from an old sense of 'tout', to look out – the people of a look-out post on the road to London. It appears as Totinges in the Domesday Book of 1086. This part is Tooting Graveney, after the De Gravenel family, and Broadway is the generic name for the high street passing the station.

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Sources

  1. Tooting Wikipedia
  2. Tooting Broadway tube station Wikipedia
  3. How the Northern line stations got their names Londonist

This text was written with the help of AI from the sources above and checked against them.