Tooting is located in the South West of London in the borough of Wandsworth, sandwiched between Balham and Colliers Wood with Streatham on the left and Wimbledon on the right. If you head a little further south from Tooting Broadway you pass Colliers wood and get into Morden (or Mordor as it’s known to the local residents).

If you live south of the river and fancy a decent curry, you don’t need to travel all the way to Brick Lane, just get yourself along to Upper Tooting Road for the veritable Smorgasborg of Indian restaurants and takeaways. This is arguably the best place in South London for a curry. Mr. Korma is great for deliveries and if you fancy eating in try Mirch Masala.

The BBC comedy series Citizen Smith was set in Tooting and popularised the cry 'Freedom for Tooting!'. Star of the series Wolfie Smith (played by Robert Lindsay) was a beret-hatted Communist 'leftie' type, founder of fictional revolutionary political organisation, the Tooting Popular Front.

Tooting is positioned on the Northern Line — with stations at the top and the bottom of the hill that slopes down the High Street, Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway.

The Tooting Markets are open Monday to Saturday with a wide range of small independent marketplace sellers. You can find green-lipped New Zealand mussels at the fishmonger right next door to a lace and fabric stall. The markets also contain a pet shop, CD store, women's shoe stall, tattoo parlour, bakery, coffee shop, nail salon and much more. The markets are closed on Sunday.

Tooting Broadway is a centre of the Muslim Pakistani community of south London. There are many Indian and Pakistani clothes shops, sweet shops and Restaurants. There are also many Somalis, Tamils, Poles and Jamaicans in the area.

Tooting also plays host to a range of chain stores including; Snappy Snaps, New Look, Budgens, Peacocks, Primark, Sainsbury's, Clarks, Holland and Barrett, Greggs and Tesco's.