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[[Image:Wimbledon Common.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Wimbledon Common]]
 
[[Image:Wimbledon Common.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Wimbledon Common]]
'''Wimbledon''' is a suburb of south-west [[London]], in the London Borough of [[Merton]]. It is famous for the annual [[tennis tournament]] held at the All England Tennis and Croquet Club known simply as 'Wimbledon', one of the four '[[Grand Slam]]' events in the tennis calendar (along with the Australian, French and US Open tournaments)<ref>http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/index.html</ref>.
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'''Wimbledon''' is a suburb of south-west [[London]], in the London Borough of [[Merton]]. It is famous for the annual [[tennis]] [[tournament]] held at the All England Tennis and Croquet Club known simply as 'Wimbledon', one of the four '[[Grand Slam]]' events in the tennis calendar (along with the Australian, French and US Open tournaments)<ref>http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/index.html</ref>.
    
Wimbledon Common is a large area of open space close to the town. Sir Robert Baden Powell wrote ''Scouting for Boys'' in the windmill on the common; but it is now better known as the setting of the children's TV animation ''The Wombles''<ref>http://www.thescoutingpages.org.uk/wimbledom.html</ref>.
 
Wimbledon Common is a large area of open space close to the town. Sir Robert Baden Powell wrote ''Scouting for Boys'' in the windmill on the common; but it is now better known as the setting of the children's TV animation ''The Wombles''<ref>http://www.thescoutingpages.org.uk/wimbledom.html</ref>.
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