London’s Alleys: Dairy Walk, SW19

There’s a remarkable alley in Wimbledon that many people passing by will notice one distinctive feature, but you can only see the other by walking along it.
This is Dairy Walk, with a locally famous turnstile.Although described as an ancient right of way, Dairy Walk doesn’t seem to exist on any maps until around the middle of the 19th century as a path around still developing Wimbledon
The alley passed through farmland until fairly recently, and while there were some large houses on