Merton Cycle route 15 km, 1 hour

Start at: Baitul Futuh Mosque SM4 5PT
Merton Abbey Mills
The Old Lamp Works
Albany Clinic
St Luke’s Wimbledon Park
Donhead Prep School
Cannizaro Studios
5 Parkside Ave
Buddhapadipa Temple
Finish at: Wimbledon Windmill SW19 5NR

Baitul Futuh Mosque 181 London Rd, Morden SM4 5PT
Largest purpose-built mosque in Western Europe accommodating 13,000 worshippers. The building is a blend of Islamic and modern British architecture and incorporates much of the structure of an old dairy site.

Directions:
Head northeast on London Rd/A24 625 m > Keep right to continue on Crown Rd/A24 28 m > Turn right onto Crown Ln/A24 and go through 1 roundabout 528 m > Turn right into Morden Hall Park > Follow National Cycle Route 20 1.5 km alongside River Wandle to Merton Mills

The Wheelhouse The Apprentice Shop, Watermill Way, Merton Abbey Mills, Colliers Wood, London SW19 2RD
Listed building with unique 7-spoke Victorian waterwheel, the only daily working example in South London, originally used by Liberty's for rinsing printed silk, and now the home of a craft pottery.

Directions:
Return to National Cycle Route 20, cross the main road 125m > turn left onto Station Rd 128m > Turn left onto High Path 500m > Turn right onto Merton Rd/A219 650m > Turn left onto The Broadway/A219 69 m > Turn left 26 m into Elliott Wood Offices

Elliott Wood Offices 241 The Broadway London SW19 1SD
A Victorian villa with impressive 2-storey vaulted steel and glass office space with mezzanine for structural engineers Elliott Wood. Richard Paxton Architects 2004

Directions:
Return to The Broadway/A219 and turn left 94 m > Turn right onto Trinity Rd 526 m > Turn left onto Queen's Rd 13 m > Turn right onto Ashcombe Rd 411 m > At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Gap Rd/B235 152 m > At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Strathearn Rd 535 m > Continue onto Home Park Rd 350 m > At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Arthur Rd 181 m > Turn left onto Farquhar Rd 117 m > St Luke’s is on the right

St Luke’s Wimbledon Park 26 Farquhar Rd, Wimbledon Park, London SW19 8DA
Grade II listed church designed by Sir Thomas Jackson and built in 1908 in red brickwork with green slate roofs. The building comprises nave with gallery at the west end, chancel, north and south aisles, a north chancel aisle and south transept. At the west end there is a full width narthex with entrance vestibule and side rooms. The tower rises from this construction at the NW corner of the nave. A kitchen and two toilets have been formed in the southern room and a boiler room in the lobby.

Directions:
Return on on Farquhar Rd to Arthur Rd 117 m > Turn right onto Arthur Rd 164 m > At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Home Park Rd 108 m > Turn right onto Vineyard Hill Rd 631 m > Turn left onto Leopold Rd 27 m > Turn right onto Lake Rd 364 m > Turn right onto Church Hill 168 m > Turn left onto St Mary's Rd 75 m > Turn right onto Belvedere Dr 118 m > Turn right onto Belvedere Ave 138 m > Turn left onto Belvedere Grove 285 m > At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Ridgway 779 m > Turn left onto Edge Hill 111 m > Turn right 79 m into Donhead Preparatory School

Donhead Preparatory School Hanah Court, 41 Edge Hill, Wimbledon, London SW19 4NP
Update and extension of school to incorporate 4 new classrooms, a 150 seat auditorium, double height art room and 50 seat chapel. Philips Tracey Architects 2016

Return up Edge Hill to the Ridgway and turn right 148 m > Turn left onto Clifton Rd 323 m > Turn left onto Southside Common 117 m > Turn right onto West Side Common/B281 357 m > Just past the Hotel du Vin turn left along paths 350m > Cannizaro Studios are ahead of you

Cannizaro Studios Potting Sheds, Cannizaro Park, West Side Common, Wimbledon, London SW19 4UE
Victorian Potting sheds converted to artists' studios set within the grounds of Grade II listed Cannizaro Park. NB Not participating in Open House in 2021.

Directions:
Return to West Side Common/B281, turn right 50m > Turn left onto Cannizaro Road/B281
549 m > Across the main road onto Parkside Ave 178 m > No 9 is on your right

9 Parkside Avenue Wimbledon, London SW19 5ES
Complex series of interlocking spaces within a simple overall volume, the house has references to the dramatic and hidden sources for lighting spaces seen in Baroque churches and the work of Sir John Soane. Sustainable features included. Holden Harper Architects 1999

Directions:
Head southwest on Parkside Ave 94 m > Turn right onto Parkside Gardens 514 m > Turn right onto Calonne Rd 240 m > the entrance to the Temple is on your left.

Buddhapadipa Temple 19 Calonne Rd, Wimbledon, London SW19 5HJ

Complex of buildings on 4 acres of land with Buddhist Theravada Temple in Thai style - one of only two outside Asia. Interior walls with excellent mural paintings by Thai artists, depicting aspects of the Buddha's life. NB Not participating in Open House 2021.

Directions:
Head west on Calonne Rd 341 m > Turn right onto Parkside/A219 450 m > Turn left onto Windmill Rd 550m > the Windmill is ahead of you

Wimbledon Windmill Queen's Mere, Queensmere Rd, Wimbledon, London SW19 5NR
Rare example of a hollow post mill (1817). Grade II* listed, it now contains a museum depicting the history and development of windmills in Britain. Many working models, windmill machinery, equipment and tools. NB Not participating in Open House 2021.