USEFUL LOCAL FACILITIES : -
Just around the corner - 40 metres from the practice - is a very useful parade of shops, restaurants and wine & coffee bars. This is ABBEVILLE ROAD - known locally as Abbeville Village. If you are hungry or thirsty - need to park a friend, rest or rendezvous - either before or after your appointment - it is a very handy . There is a convenient pavement cafe culture, restaurants, a range of food shopping and a postbox.
You may like before or after your appointment to enjoy CLAPHAM COMMON. It offers pleasant prospects in good weather. There is a fine view of aircraft overhead on their way to Heathrow - sometimes bringing clients from foreign parts. Also a Victorian Bandstand recently restored by Lambeth Council and the Clapham Society.
There is the BANDSTAND CAFE - a favourite sunny gathering place for couples & young mothers with children of all ages. The large hard surfaced apron and surrounding slopes are much enjoyed by youngsters on foot or bicycle.
Clapham Common has avenues of venerable and healthy young trees planted largely at the instigation of the Clapham Society and Friends of Clapham Common over the last 30 yrs..
There are three ponds - for model boating, fishing and wildlife.
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CAR PARKING
Parkng in the area is now on a pay by phone basis . Space is generally easy to find within a short walk. Parking is permissible on the right hand side of Cautley Avenue when facing the common and in other streets in the appropriate bays locally. If the (sun-powered) parking meter in Cautley Avenue fails there are others in the vicinity which generally work.
Please attend carefully to the signs so that you do not park ( VERY EXPENSIVELY ! ) in a bay for residents only !