Wandsworth Common and the Windmill

Off-lead rules

Off-lead in designated areas

Wandsworth formally designates dog exercise areas - places where you can exercise your dog without having to clear up dog waste - alongside dog free areas and poop-scoop areas.

On-lead areas: Dogs are excluded from children's play areas, enclosed sports and fitness facilities, the lake, the Stock Pond, the cricket field and adjacent sports field, and the enclosed area adjacent to Windmill Children's Centre. Dogs must be on leads on all public highways including pavements, verges and adjacent grass amenity areas, and in car parks and cafe outdoor eating areas. An authorised officer may direct a dog onto a lead.

A Public Spaces Protection Order applies here. Dogs must be on leads in specified areas including all public highways, and an authorised person may require a dog to be put on a lead. It is an offence to have more than 4 dogs at any one time.

The walk itself

Start point

Bellevue Road, by the Common

Nearest station

Wandsworth Common

Terrain

open common, woodland, a lake and a pond

Surface

tarmac paths and grass

Accessibility

level surfaced paths

Mud

medium

How quiet

medium

Suits a reactive dog

moderate

Water access

Yes

Swimming allowed

No

Livestock

No

Wildlife

medium

Stiles

Not stated

Gates

No

Lighting

Not stated

Toilets

Not stated

Waste bins

Yes

Parking

Not stated

Café on site

Yes

“Not stated” means our source did not cover it. We leave gaps rather than fill them.

Notes

Wandsworth publishes a dog control map for the SW11 and SW18 areas of the common; the map PDF exceeded fetch limits so the precise boundaries of the exercise, poop-scoop and dog-free zones were not verified. Enforced by Wandsworth Parks Police.