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  Tooting history & interesting facts ! (www.tootinglife.com)
According to Black's guide of Surrey published in 1880 the name of Tooting derives from an ancient Saxon Tribe called the Totingas.
Eric Overton, who wrote a detailed account of Tooting Graveney, concurs with this theory.
Others however claim that Toot is derived from the word "Theou" meaning slave plus the word "ing" meaning dwelling (i.e.
www.tootinglife.com /communityzone/history.htm   (182 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tooting Bec Lido   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tooting is a suburb in the London Borough of Wandsworth in south London.
Tooting Bec Lido is one of Britain's oldest open air pools - it opened to the public on Saturday 28 July 1906 as the Tooting Bathing-Lake.
Tooting Bec Lido was nearly closed as a result of Wandsworth council's financial cutbacks in the early 1990s which resulted in the closure of the borough's other lido at King George's Park.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tooting-Bec-Lido   (843 words)

  
 Mars Odyssey Mission THEMIS: Feature Image: Tooting Crater's Tangled Tale
Tooting's smooth surroundings and unaltered aspect have let a group of researchers measure the crater's properties in detail.
South of Tooting's rim, sheets of broken rock and debris flew across the ground in the aftermath of the impact, reaching a distance of about 30 km (20 mi).
Tooting lies near the giant volcano Olympus Mons, part of the vast Tharsis volcanic province, and the water might have come from the lavas that produced Olympus Mons.
themis.asu.edu /features/tooting   (1007 words)

  
 The Tooting Bec Asylum, Tooting
Tooting Bec Asylum was the fourth asylum hospital to be erected by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to supplement the existing institutions at Leavesden, Caterham, and Darenth.
The layout of Tooting Bec was deliberately intended to follow that of the existing institutions at Leavesden and Caterham.
The entrance is from Tooting Bec Common, but there is a second entrance from Church-lane, for bringing in coal and heavy stores and removing refuse, for which purpose a granite tram-road has been laid through the workshop yard to the several coal-stores, and a weighbridge fixed.
users.ox.ac.uk /~peter/workhouse/MAB-TootingBec/MAB-TootingBec.shtml   (2431 words)

  
 Tooting travel guide - Wikitravel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tooting is situated in South-West London in England.
Tooting is a culturally vibrant place with a diverse and mixed background of people, cultures and history.
Tooting Bec Common, Wandsworth Common and Wimbledon Common are near and the River Wandle Walk continues with improvements.
wikitravel.org /en/London/Tooting   (584 words)

  
 Tooting travel guide - Wikitravel
Tooting is situated in South-West London in England.
Tooting is a culturally vibrant place with a diverse and mixed background of people, cultures and history.
Tooting Bec Common, Wandsworth Common and Wimbledon Common are near and the River Wandle Walk continues with improvements.
www.wikitravel.org /en/London/Tooting   (586 words)

  
 Snorting/tooting drugs - harm reduction info and health risks explained
There is increasing evidence that suggests that the sharing of cocaine tooting straws and equipment is a factor in the transmission of Hepatitus C. Hep C is a serious viral infection of the liver that can result in death.
It is suggested that during nasal ingestion of cocaine the blood vessels in the mucous membrane become dilated and ruptture creating a route for transmission of this virus.
If you toot a line of gear you have NO idea of its strength etc until it hits, which may well be too late.
www.urban75.com /Drugs/snorting.html   (675 words)

  
 Tooting Crater, Mars
Tooting Crater is a very fresh example of a rampart crater, because it shows minimal signs of erosions and there are almost no small impact craters on the ejecta blanket.
Tooting Crater is about 28 km in diameter, and is located at 23.4N, 207.5E, just to the west of Olympus Mons volcano (which is often cited as the largest volcano on Mars).
Tooting Crater is also unusual as Martian meteorite craters go because there is a large number of smaller craters (called "secondary craters") around the perimeter of the ejecta blanket.
www.higp.hawaii.edu /~pmm/planetary.html   (739 words)

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