Barnes
Barnes is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is inside the north east of the borough and is positioned 5.8 miles west south west of Charing Cross.
Barnes has a great deal of 18th and nineteenth century buildings in the streets close to Barnes Pond, which make up Barnes Village conservation area exactly where many of the mid-19th century buildings sit. On the east riverside, there is the WWT London Wetland Centre which adjoins numerous fields for three principal national team sports.
The town once was part of Surrey, and it appears within the Domesday book as ‘Berne’. Barnes’ village church was constructed between 1100 and 1150 and named the Chapel of St Mary’s. It was extended during the early 13th century, and was added to once again in 1786. A big fire destroyed components of the extensions to the chapel in 1978, so restoration work was completed 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 in the time of Mulcaster it was positioned in St Paul’s Cathedral. The town features a non-league football team called 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 known for rowing; the loop of the Thames surrounding Barnes is a part of the Championship Course employed for the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
