Barnes is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It's in the north east of the borough and is positioned 9.3 km west south west of Charing Cross.
Barnes has numerous eighteenth centu and nineteenth century buildings in the streets near Barnes Pond, which make up Barnes Village conservation area exactly where the majority of the mid-19th century buildings are found. On the east riverside, there is the WWT London Wetland Centre which adjoins a number of fields for three principal national team sports.
The town once was a part of Surrey, and it appears within the Domesday book as ‘Berne’. Barnes’ village church was built between 1100 and 1150 and named the Chapel of St Mary’s. It was extended in the early 13th century, and was added to once more in 1786. A big fire destroyed parts of the extensions to the chapel in 1978, so restoration work was performed in 1984.
Barnes features a lot of sporting history spanning decades. In football, a High Master of St Paul’s School, Richard Mulcaster, is recognised with turning mob football into a refereed team sport. The school sits on Lonsdale Road, but at the time of Mulcaster it was positioned in St Paul’s Cathedral. The town features a non-league football club known as Stonewall FC, who play at Barn Elms Playing Fields.
Barnes Rugby Club is known to be the oldest club in the world in any football code. They play next to the WWT London Wetlands Centre. The town is also identified for rowing; the loop of the Thames surrounding Barnes is part of the Championship Course made use of for the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
