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vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Geography</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Geography-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Geography subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Geography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Riverside" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Riverside"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Riverside</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Riverside-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_boundaries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_boundaries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Other boundaries</span> 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A" title="باترسي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="باترسي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C" title="بترسی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="بترسی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea" title="Battersea – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Battersea" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea" title="Battersea – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Battersea" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_(London)" title="Battersea (London) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Battersea (London)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea" title="Battersea – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Battersea" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea" title="Battersea – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Battersea" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C" title="بترسی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="بترسی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea" title="Battersea – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Battersea" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea" title="Battersea – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Battersea" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%B0%ED%84%B0%EC%8B%9C" title="배터시 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="배터시" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D5%A1%D5%A9%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BD%D5%AB" title="Բաթերսի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Բաթերսի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a 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href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea" title="Battersea – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Battersea" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea" title="Battersea – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Battersea" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%80" title="बैटरसी – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="बैटरसी" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a 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href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_London" title="List of places in London">London</a></dd></dl></div> <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Battersea&params=51.47_N_0.164_W_region:GB_type:city(73345)"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°28′12″N</span> <span class="longitude">0°09′50″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.470°N 0.164°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.470; -0.164</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Battersea</b> is a large district in southwest <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, part of the <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Wandsworth" title="London Borough of Wandsworth">London Borough of Wandsworth</a>, England. It is centred 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southwest of <a href="/wiki/Charing_Cross" title="Charing Cross">Charing Cross</a> it also extends along the south bank of the <a href="/wiki/Thames_Tideway" class="mw-redirect" title="Thames Tideway">Thames Tideway</a>. It includes the 200-acre (0.81 km<sup>2</sup>) <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Park" title="Battersea Park">Battersea Park</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_London" title="History of London">History of London</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hundred_of_Brixton" title="Hundred of Brixton">Hundred of Brixton</a></div> <p>Battersea is mentioned in the few surviving <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Saxon">Anglo-Saxon</a> geographical accounts as <span title="Old English-language text"><i lang="ang">Badrices īeg</i></span>, 'Badric's Island' and later <a href="/wiki/Old_English_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Old English language">Old English</a>: <i lang="ang">Patrisey</i>. As with many former parishes beside tidal flood plains the lowest land was reclaimed for agriculture by draining marshland and building culverts for streams. By the side of this was the <a href="/wiki/River_Heathwall" title="River Heathwall">Heathwall</a> <a href="/wiki/Tide_mill" title="Tide mill">tide mill</a> in the north-east with a very long mill pond regularly draining and filling to the south. </p><p>The settlement appears in the <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a> of 1086 as <a href="/wiki/Middle_English_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle English language">Middle English</a>: <i lang="enm">Patricesy</i>, a vast manor held by <a href="/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Abbey,_Westminster" class="mw-redirect" title="St Peter's Abbey, Westminster">St Peter's Abbey, Westminster</a>. Its <i>Domesday</i> Assets were: 18 <a href="/wiki/Hide_(unit)" title="Hide (unit)">hides</a> and 17 <a href="/wiki/Ploughland" class="mw-redirect" title="Ploughland">ploughlands</a> of cultivated land; 7 <a href="/wiki/Gristmill" title="Gristmill">mills</a> worth £42 9s 8d per year, 82 acres (33 ha) of <a href="/wiki/Meadow" title="Meadow">meadow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Woodland" title="Woodland">woodland</a> worth 50 <a href="/wiki/Hog_(swine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hog (swine)">hogs</a>. It rendered (in total): £75 9s 8d.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The present church, which was completed in 1777, hosted the marriage of <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a> and <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Blake" title="Catherine Blake">Catherine Boucher</a> in 1782. <a href="/wiki/Benedict_Arnold" title="Benedict Arnold">Benedict Arnold</a>, his wife <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Shippen" title="Peggy Shippen">Peggy Shippen</a>, and their daughter were buried in the <a href="/wiki/Crypt" title="Crypt">crypt</a> of the church. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Battersea_Park" title="Battersea Park">Battersea Park</a>, a 200-acre (0.81 km<sup>2</sup>) northern rectangle by the Thames, was landscaped and founded for public use in 1858.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Amenities and leisure buildings have been added to it since. </p><p>Until 1889, the parish of Battersea was part of the county of <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a>. In that year a new <a href="/wiki/County_of_London" title="County of London">County of London</a> came into being and the parish was made part of it. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Agriculture">Agriculture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Agriculture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a>, much of the large parish was farmland, providing food for the <a href="/wiki/City_of_London" title="City of London">City of London</a> and surrounding population centres; and with particular specialisms, such as growing <a href="/wiki/Lavender" class="mw-redirect" title="Lavender">lavender</a> on <a href="/wiki/Lavender_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Lavender Hill">Lavender Hill</a> (nowadays denoted by the road of the same name), <a href="/wiki/Asparagus" title="Asparagus">asparagus</a> (sold as "Battersea Bundles") or pig breeding on Pig Hill (later the site of the <a href="/wiki/Shaftesbury_Park_Estate" title="Shaftesbury Park Estate">Shaftesbury Park Estate</a>). At the end of the 18th century, above 300 acres (1.2 km<sup>2</sup>) of land in the parish of Battersea were occupied by some 20 market gardeners, who rented from five to near 60 acres (24 ha) each.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Villages in the wider area: Wandsworth, Earlsfield (hamlet of Garratt), Tooting, Balham – were separated by fields; in common with other suburbs the wealthy of London and the traditional manor successors built their homes in Battersea and neighbouring areas.<sup id="cite_ref-vh_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vh-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Industry">Industry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Industry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Battersea_power_station_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Battersea_power_station_2.jpg/170px-Battersea_power_station_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Battersea_power_station_2.jpg/255px-Battersea_power_station_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Battersea_power_station_2.jpg/340px-Battersea_power_station_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="473" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station" title="Battersea Power Station">Battersea Power Station</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Industry in the area was concentrated to the northwest just outside the Battersea-Wandsworth boundary, at the confluence of the River Thames and the <a href="/wiki/River_Wandle" title="River Wandle">River Wandle</a>, which gave rise to the village of <a href="/wiki/Wandsworth" title="Wandsworth">Wandsworth</a>. This was settled from the 16th century by <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> craftsmen – <a href="/wiki/Huguenot" class="mw-redirect" title="Huguenot">Huguenots</a> – fleeing religious persecution in Europe, who planted lavender and gardens and established a range of industries such as mills, breweries and dyeing, bleaching and <a href="/wiki/Calico" title="Calico">calico</a> printing.<sup id="cite_ref-vh_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vh-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Industry developed eastwards along the bank of the Thames during the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a> from the 1750s onwards; the Thames provided water for transport, for steam engines and for water-intensive industrial processes. Bridges erected across the Thames encouraged growth; <a href="/wiki/Putney_Bridge" title="Putney Bridge">Putney Bridge</a>, a mile to the west, was built in 1729 and rebuilt 1882, and <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Bridge" title="Battersea Bridge">Battersea Bridge</a> in the centre of the north boundary in 1771. Inland from the river, the rural agricultural community persisted.<sup id="cite_ref-vh_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vh-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Along the Thames, a number of large and, in their field, pre-eminent firms grew; notably the <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Crucible" class="mw-redirect" title="Morgan Crucible">Morgan Crucible</a> company, which survives to this day and is listed on the <a href="/wiki/London_Stock_Exchange" title="London Stock Exchange">London Stock Exchange</a>; Price's Candles, which also made cycle lamp oil; oil refiner and paint manufacturer <a href="/wiki/S._Bowley_and_Son" title="S. Bowley and Son">S. Bowley and Son</a>; and Orlando Jones' Starch Factory. The 1874 <a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey" title="Ordnance Survey">Ordnance Survey</a> map of the area shows the following factories, in order, from the site of the as yet unbuilt Wandsworth Bridge to Battersea Park: Starch manufacturer; Silk manufacturer; (St. John's College); (St. Mary's Church); Malt house; Corn mill; Oil and grease works (Prices Candles); Chemical works; Plumbago Crucible works (later the <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Crucible" class="mw-redirect" title="Morgan Crucible">Morgan Crucible Company</a>); Chemical works; Saltpetre works; Foundry. Between these were numerous wharfs for shipping. </p><p>In 1929, construction started on <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station" title="Battersea Power Station">Battersea Power Station</a>, being completed in 1939. From the late 18th century to comparatively recent times,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (April 2023)">as of?</span></a></i>]</sup> Battersea was established as an industrial area with all of the issues associated with pollution and poor housing affecting it.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Industry declined and moved away from the area in the 1970s, and local government sought to address chronic post-war housing problems with large scale clearances and the establishment of planned housing. Some decades after the end of large scale local industry,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (April 2023)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> resurgent demand among magnates and high income earners for parkside and riverside property close to planned Underground links has led to significant construction, <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Factories have been demolished and replaced with modern apartment buildings. Some of the council owned properties have been sold off and several traditional working men's pubs have become more fashionable bistros. Battersea neighbourhoods close to the railway have some of the most deprived local authority housing in the Borough of Wandsworth, in an area which saw condemned slums after their erection in the Victoria era.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Railway_age">Railway age</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Railway age"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:London_V2_Frissell2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/London_V2_Frissell2.jpg/220px-London_V2_Frissell2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/London_V2_Frissell2.jpg/330px-London_V2_Frissell2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/London_V2_Frissell2.jpg/440px-London_V2_Frissell2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="983" data-file-height="1030" /></a><figcaption>Aftermath of a <a href="/wiki/V-2" class="mw-redirect" title="V-2">V-2</a> bombing at Battersea, 27 January 1945.</figcaption></figure> <p>Battersea was radically altered by the coming of railways. The <a href="/wiki/London_and_Southampton_Railway" title="London and Southampton Railway">London and Southampton Railway</a> Company engineered their railway line from east to west through Battersea, in 1838, terminating at the original <a href="/wiki/Nine_Elms_railway_station" title="Nine Elms railway station">Nine Elms railway station</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at the north east tip of the area. Over the next 22 years five other lines were built, which continue to carry all of the trains to and from London's <a href="/wiki/London_Waterloo_station" title="London Waterloo station">Waterloo</a> and <a href="/wiki/London_Victoria_station" title="London Victoria station">Victoria</a> termini. An interchange station was built in 1863 towards the north west of the area, at a junction of the railway. Taking the name of a fashionable village a mile and more away, the station was named '<a href="/wiki/Clapham_Junction_railway_station" title="Clapham Junction railway station">Clapham Junction</a>':<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a campaign to rename it "Battersea Junction" fizzled out as late as the early twentieth century. </p><p>During the latter decades of the nineteenth century Battersea had developed into a major town railway centre with two locomotive works at <a href="/wiki/Nine_Elms_Locomotive_Works" title="Nine Elms Locomotive Works">Nine Elms</a> and <a href="/wiki/Longhedge_Railway_Works_(Battersea)" class="mw-redirect" title="Longhedge Railway Works (Battersea)">Longhedge</a> and three important motive power depots (Nine Elms, Stewarts Lane and Battersea) all in an initial pocket of north Battersea. The effect was precipitate: a population of 6,000 people in 1840 was increased to 168,000 by 1910; and save for the green spaces of <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Park" title="Battersea Park">Battersea Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clapham_Common" title="Clapham Common">Clapham Common</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wandsworth_Common" title="Wandsworth Common">Wandsworth Common</a> and some smaller isolated pockets, all other farmland was built over, with, from north to south, industrial buildings and vast railway sheds and sidings (much of which remain), slum housing for workers, especially north of the main east–west railway, and gradually more genteel residential terraced housing further south. </p><p>The railway station encouraged the government to site its buildings in the area surrounding <a href="/wiki/Clapham_Junction_(area)" title="Clapham Junction (area)">Clapham Junction</a>, where a cluster of new civic buildings including the town hall, library, police station, court and post office was developed along <a href="/wiki/Lavender_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Lavender Hill">Lavender Hill</a> in the 1880s and 1890s. The <a href="/wiki/Arding_%26_Hobbs" title="Arding & Hobbs">Arding & Hobbs</a> department store, diagonally opposite the station, was the largest of its type at the time of its construction in 1885; and the streets near the station developed as a regional shopping district. The area was served by a vast music hall – The Grand – opposite the station (nowadays serving as a nightclub and venue for smaller bands) as well as a large theatre next to the town hall (the Shakespeare Theatre, later redeveloped following bomb damage). All this building around the station shifted the focus of the area southwards, and marginalised Battersea High Street (the main street of the original village) into no more than an extension of Falcon Road.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Social_housing_estates">Social housing estates</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Social housing estates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Not_really_built_of_Lego......_-_geograph.org.uk_-_183398.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Not_really_built_of_Lego......_-_geograph.org.uk_-_183398.jpg/220px-Not_really_built_of_Lego......_-_geograph.org.uk_-_183398.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Not_really_built_of_Lego......_-_geograph.org.uk_-_183398.jpg/330px-Not_really_built_of_Lego......_-_geograph.org.uk_-_183398.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Not_really_built_of_Lego......_-_geograph.org.uk_-_183398.jpg/440px-Not_really_built_of_Lego......_-_geograph.org.uk_-_183398.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Doddington and Rollo Estate.</figcaption></figure> <p>Battersea has a long and varied history of social housing, and the completion of the <a href="/wiki/Shaftesbury_Park_Estate" title="Shaftesbury Park Estate">Shaftesbury Park Estate</a> in 1877 was one of the earliest in London or the UK. Additionally, the development of the <a href="/wiki/Latchmere_Estate" title="Latchmere Estate">Latchmere Estate</a> in 1903 was notable both for <a href="/wiki/John_Burns" title="John Burns">John Burns</a>' involvement and for being the first estate directly built by a council's own workforce and therefore the first true "council estate". Indeed, both of these earlier estates have since been recognised as <a href="/wiki/Conservation_area_(United_Kingdom)" title="Conservation area (United Kingdom)">conservation areas</a> due to their historical and architectural significance and are protected from redevelopment.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Battersea also has a large area of mid-20th century public housing estates, almost all located north of the main railway lines and spanning from <a href="/wiki/Fairfield_(Wandsworth_ward)" title="Fairfield (Wandsworth ward)">Fairfield</a> in the west to Queenstown in the east.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are four particularly large estates. The <a href="/wiki/Winstanley_Estate" class="mw-redirect" title="Winstanley Estate">Winstanley Estate</a>, perhaps being the most renowned of them all, is known as being the birthplace to the garage collective <a href="/wiki/So_Solid_Crew" title="So Solid Crew">So Solid Crew</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Winstanley is close to Clapham Junction railway station in the northern perimeter of Battersea, and is currently being considered for comprehensive redevelopment as one of the London Mayor's new Housing Zones.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Further north towards Chelsea is the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Surrey_Lane_Estate&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Surrey Lane Estate (page does not exist)">Surrey Lane Estate</a>, and on Battersea Park Road is the Doddington and Rollo Estate. East, toward Vauxhall, is the <a href="/wiki/Patmore_Estate" title="Patmore Estate">Patmore Estate</a> which is in close proximity to the Battersea Power Station. </p><p>Other smaller estates include: York Road (see <a href="/wiki/Winstanley_Estate" class="mw-redirect" title="Winstanley Estate">Winstanley Estate</a>), Ashley Crescent, Badric Court, Carey Gardens, Chatham Road, Ethelburga, Falcon Road, Gideon Road, Honeywell Road, Kambala, Peabody, Robertson Street, Savona, Somerset, Wilditch and Wynter Street.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_I:_The_Battersea_Battalion">World War I: The Battersea Battalion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: World War I: The Battersea Battalion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/10th_(Service)_Battalion,_Queen%27s_(Royal_West_Surrey_Regiment)_(Battersea)" title="10th (Service) Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (Battersea)">10th (Service) Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (Battersea)</a></div> <p>On the outbreak of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> in August 1914 <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Kitchener,_1st_Earl_Kitchener" title="Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener">Earl Kitchener of Khartoum</a>, issued his famous call to arms: 'Your King and Country Need You'. But the flood of volunteers overwhelmed the ability of the Army to absorb them, and units began to be raised by local initiative rather than at regimental depots, often from men from particular localities or backgrounds who wished to serve together: these were known as '<a href="/wiki/Pals_battalions" class="mw-redirect" title="Pals battalions">Pals battalions</a>'. The 'Pals' phenomenon quickly spread across the country, as local recruiting committees offered complete units. Encouraged by this response, Kitchener approached the 28 <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_boroughs_of_the_County_of_London" title="Metropolitan boroughs of the County of London">Metropolitan boroughs of the County of London</a>, and the 'Great Metropolitan Recruiting Campaign' went ahead in April 1915, with each mayor asked to raise a unit of local men.<sup id="cite_ref-McCue_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCue-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One such unit was raised on 3 June 1915 by the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Battersea" title="Metropolitan Borough of Battersea">Mayor and Borough of Battersea</a> as the <a href="/wiki/10th_(Service)_Battalion,_Queen%27s_(Royal_West_Surrey_Regiment)_(Battersea)" title="10th (Service) Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (Battersea)">10th (Service) Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (Battersea)</a>. (Although Battersea was by then in the County of London, the <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_(Royal_West_Surrey_Regiment)" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)">Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)</a> was still the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">Regular Army</a> regiment covering South London, while the <a href="/wiki/London_Regiment_(1908%E2%80%931938)" title="London Regiment (1908–1938)">London Regiment</a>, including the <a href="/wiki/23rd_(County_of_London)_Battalion,_London_Regiment" title="23rd (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment">23rd Battalion</a> based at Clapham Junction, consisted entirely of part-time soldiers of the <a href="/wiki/Territorial_Force" title="Territorial Force">Territorial Force</a> (TF).)<sup id="cite_ref-McCue_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCue-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wylly_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wylly-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Battersea Battalion served alongside Pals battalions from <a href="/wiki/Lambeth" title="Lambeth">Lambeth</a> (11th Queens), <a href="/wiki/Bermondsey" title="Bermondsey">Bermondsey</a> (12th <a href="/wiki/East_Surrey_Regiment" title="East Surrey Regiment">East Surreys</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Lewisham" title="Lewisham">Lewisham</a> (10th <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Own_Royal_West_Kent_Regiment" title="Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment">West Kents</a>) in <a href="/wiki/41st_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="41st Division (United Kingdom)">41st Division</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a>, including the battles of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme" title="Battle of the Somme">Somme</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Messines_(1917)" title="Battle of Messines (1917)">Messines</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Passchendaele" title="Battle of Passchendaele">Ypres</a>, on the <a href="/wiki/Italian_front_(World_War_I)" title="Italian front (World War I)">Italian Front</a>, and then back in the west against the <a href="/wiki/German_spring_offensive" title="German spring offensive">German spring offensive</a> and in the final victorious <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Days_Offensive" title="Hundred Days Offensive">Hundred Days Offensive</a>. The Battersea Battalion was kept up to strength with dismounted cavalrymen from the <a href="/wiki/Surrey_Yeomanry" title="Surrey Yeomanry">Surrey Yeomanry</a> (TF), based at <a href="/wiki/Clapham_Park" title="Clapham Park">Clapham Park</a>. After the <a href="/wiki/Armistice_with_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Armistice with Germany">Armistice</a> it took part in the <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Rhineland" title="Occupation of the Rhineland">Occupation of the Rhineland</a> and was finally disbanded in 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-McCue_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCue-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wylly_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wylly-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_local_government_in_London" title="History of local government in London">History of local government in London</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Batterseaarms.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/27/Batterseaarms.PNG/250px-Batterseaarms.PNG" decoding="async" width="250" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Batterseaarms.PNG 1.5x" data-file-width="251" data-file-height="301" /></a><figcaption>Arms granted to the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Battersea" title="Metropolitan Borough of Battersea">Metropolitan Borough of Battersea</a> in 1955</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Battersea_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Battersea_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg/250px-Battersea_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="349" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Battersea_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg/375px-Battersea_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Battersea_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg/500px-Battersea_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="957" data-file-height="1336" /></a><figcaption>A map showing the wards of Battersea Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.</figcaption></figure> <div class="noresize thumb tright" style=";"> <div class="thumbinner" style="overflow:hidden;width:242px;"> <div class="thumbimage" style="height:252px; overflow:hidden; position:relative; background-color:white;"> <div style=";left:-270px; top:-100px; width:600px; position:absolute;"> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SW_postcode_area_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="A traditional, such as Metropolitan Borough scope of Battersea is slightly exceeded by SW8 and SW11 postcodes"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/SW_postcode_area_map.svg/600px-SW_postcode_area_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="600" height="600" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/SW_postcode_area_map.svg/900px-SW_postcode_area_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/SW_postcode_area_map.svg/1200px-SW_postcode_area_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></div> <div style="text-align:left; background-color:transparent; line-height:110%;"> </div> <div style="visibility:hidden"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:SW_postcode_area_map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/SW_postcode_area_map.svg/600px-SW_postcode_area_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="600" height="600" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/SW_postcode_area_map.svg/900px-SW_postcode_area_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/SW_postcode_area_map.svg/1200px-SW_postcode_area_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></div> </div> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:SW_postcode_area_map.svg" title="File:SW postcode area map.svg"> </a></div>A traditional, such as Metropolitan Borough scope of Battersea is slightly exceeded by SW8 and SW11 postcodes</div> </div></div> <p>The tradition of local government in England was based in part of <a href="/wiki/Manorialism" title="Manorialism">Manor</a>, and later on the <a href="/wiki/Parish" title="Parish">Parish</a>. Battersea's governance can be traced back to 693, when the manor was held by the nunnery of St. Mary at <a href="/wiki/Barking_Abbey" title="Barking Abbey">Barking Abbey</a>. After the <a href="/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman conquest of England">Norman Conquest</a> of 1066, control of the manor passed to <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a>, ending at the time of the <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Dissolution of the Monasteries">Dissolution of the Monasteries</a> in 1540. Battersea was one of only three of the Abbey's <a href="/wiki/Demesne" title="Demesne">demesne</a> directly supervised by monks, rather than being let to tenants. Local control rested with an officer appointed by the abbey, variously termed a <a href="/wiki/Beadle" title="Beadle">beadle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reeve_(England)" title="Reeve (England)">reeve</a> or <a href="/wiki/Serjeanty" title="Serjeanty">sergeant</a>, whose responsibility it was supervise the farm servants of the manor, and to enforce and direct customary work performed by manorial tenants.<sup id="cite_ref-SoL49_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoL49-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After 1540 <a href="/wiki/The_Crown" title="The Crown">the Crown</a> assumed ownership of the manor, and let it on short leases to a succession of individuals, until in about 1590 it came into the hands of the St. John family of <a href="/wiki/Lydiard_Tregoze" title="Lydiard Tregoze">Lydiard Tregoze</a> in Wiltshire, who later became the St John Baronets of Lydiard Tregoze and ultimately the <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Bolingbroke" title="Viscount Bolingbroke">Viscounts Bolingbroke</a>. Bolingbrokes exercised control of the manor for some 173 years, showing varying levels of interest and competence in running the estate's affairs, until in 1763 the disastrously dissolute <a href="/wiki/Frederick_St_John,_2nd_Viscount_Bolingbroke" title="Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke">Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke</a> sold the manor to help to settle his many debts. Battersea now passed into the <a href="/wiki/Earl_Spencer_(peerage)" class="mw-redirect" title="Earl Spencer (peerage)">Spencer family</a> - <a href="/wiki/John_Spencer,_1st_Earl_Spencer" title="John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer">John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer</a> being related to Frederick's wife.<sup id="cite_ref-SoL49_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoL49-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Survey of London identified the period of Frederick's tenure with the development of the <a href="/wiki/Vestry" title="Vestry">Vestry</a> in Battersea; absent a competent lord of the manor, this local secular and ecclesiastical government took it upon itself to establish a <a href="/wiki/Workhouse" title="Workhouse">workhouse</a> in 1733, and met monthly from 1742.<sup id="cite_ref-SoL49_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoL49-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The period of Spencer ownership of the manor saw important land ownership changes introduced to the area. The family had many estates, such as at <a href="/wiki/Althorp" title="Althorp">Althorp</a> in Northamptonshire and <a href="/wiki/Wiseton" title="Wiseton">Wiseton</a> in Nottinghamshire. Locally, their interests were concentrated on <a href="/wiki/Wimbledon,_London" title="Wimbledon, London">Wimbledon</a>. During their tenure, large tracts of land were sold, notably around 1761, and from 1835 to 1838, leading to the development of a plurality of smaller estates, which had implications for the later development of the area.<sup id="cite_ref-SoL49_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoL49-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The scope of governance throughout this period was relatively slight. Lords of the manor were responsible for church appointments and maintenance of the fabric of the church; for drainage, and for the direction of the duties of the manor's tenants. From time to time work was done under manorial direction on the Thames foreshore; and a Spencer was responsible for the construction of first local bridge across the Thames, <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Bridge" title="Battersea Bridge">Battersea Bridge</a> from 1771 to 1772. And albeit Battersea saw some slow change over the first seven centuries of the second millennium, it was not until a later period that an imperative for greater local government arose.<sup id="cite_ref-SoL49_15-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoL49-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The vestry of Battersea continued to increase in importance from 1742, notably concerning itself with <a href="/wiki/Poor_relief" title="Poor relief">Poor Law</a> administration and drainage. Responsibility for the latter was removed from the vestry in 1855 with the establishment of Metropolitan Boards of Work under the <a href="/wiki/Metropolis_Management_Act_1855" title="Metropolis Management Act 1855">Metropolis Management Act 1855</a>; a Metropolitan Board concerned itself with cross-London drainage and sewerage, whilst a local Wandsworth Metropolitan Board assumed responsibility for minor sewers and the connection of houses to sewerage systems. It was during the tenure of the Wandsworth board that much of Battersea was developed; but such was the pace of development in Battersea that by 1887 it had a population sufficient to win the case for renewed local autonomy under the Metropolis Management (Battersea and Westminster) Act of 1887. The Battersea vestry continued through to 1899, when it became the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Battersea" title="Metropolitan Borough of Battersea">Metropolitan Borough of Battersea</a> as a result of the <a href="/wiki/London_Government_Act_1899" title="London Government Act 1899">London Government Act 1899</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SoL49_15-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoL49-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Metropolitan Borough of Battersea was in 1965 combined with the neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Wandsworth" title="Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth">Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth</a> to form the <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Wandsworth" title="London Borough of Wandsworth">London Borough of Wandsworth</a>. The former <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Town_Hall" title="Battersea Town Hall">Battersea Town Hall</a>, opened in 1893, is now the <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Arts_Centre" title="Battersea Arts Centre">Battersea Arts Centre</a>. </p><p>In the period from 1880 onwards, Battersea was known as a centre of radical politics in the United Kingdom. <a href="/wiki/John_Burns" title="John Burns">John Burns</a> founded a branch of the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Federation" title="Social Democratic Federation">Social Democratic Federation</a>, Britain's first organised socialist political party, in the borough and after the turmoil of dock strikes affecting the populace of north Battersea, was elected to represent the borough in the newly formed <a href="/wiki/London_County_Council" title="London County Council">London County Council</a>. In 1892, he expanded his role, being elected to Parliament for Battersea North as one of the first <a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour_Party" title="Independent Labour Party">Independent Labour Party</a> members of Parliament. </p><p>Battersea's radical reputation gave rise to the <a href="/wiki/Brown_Dog_affair" title="Brown Dog affair">Brown Dog affair</a>, when in 1904 the National Anti-Vivisection Society sought permission to erect a drinking fountain celebrating the life of a dog killed by <a href="/wiki/Vivisection" title="Vivisection">vivisection</a>. The fountain, forming a plinth for the statue of a brown dog, was installed in the <a href="/wiki/Latchmere_Recreation_Ground,_Battersea" title="Latchmere Recreation Ground, Battersea">Latchmere Recreation Ground</a>, became a cause célèbre, fought over in riots and battles between medical students and the local populace until its removal in 1910. </p><p>The borough elected the first black mayor<sup id="cite_ref-Roberts_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roberts-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in London in 1913 when <a href="/wiki/John_Archer_(British_politician)" title="John Archer (British politician)">John Archer</a> took office, and in 1922 elected the <a href="/wiki/Bombay" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombay">Bombay</a>-born <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist Party</a> member <a href="/wiki/Shapurji_Saklatvala" title="Shapurji Saklatvala">Shapurji Saklatvala</a> as MP for Battersea; one of only two communist members of Parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-Roberts_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roberts-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Battersea is currently divided into five Wandsworth wards. The Member of Parliament for the <a href="/wiki/Battersea_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Battersea (UK Parliament constituency)">Battersea constituency</a> since 8 June 2017 has been Labour MP <a href="/wiki/Marsha_de_Cordova" title="Marsha de Cordova">Marsha de Cordova</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Battersea is on the curved south bank of the <a href="/wiki/River_Thames" title="River Thames">River Thames</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-map_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-map-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Riverside">Riverside</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Riverside"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Battersea's northern limit is thus the <a href="/wiki/Tideway" title="Tideway">Tideway</a>, the Thames below <a href="/wiki/Teddington" title="Teddington">Teddington</a>. Battersea's riverside is just over 3 miles (4.8 km) long. Immediately to the west is <a href="/wiki/Wandsworth_Town" class="mw-redirect" title="Wandsworth Town">Wandsworth Town</a>. To the north-east are <a href="/wiki/Vauxhall" title="Vauxhall">Vauxhall</a> and then <a href="/wiki/Lambeth" title="Lambeth">Lambeth</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Waterloo,_London" title="Waterloo, London">Waterloo</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_boundaries">Other boundaries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Other boundaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Battersea at one end of its riverside has a western corner at a point 350 metres east northeast of <a href="/wiki/Wandsworth_Bridge" title="Wandsworth Bridge">Wandsworth Bridge</a>, and Battersea tapers <a href="/wiki/Boxing_the_compass" class="mw-redirect" title="Boxing the compass">SSE</a> to almost a point, roughly three miles (4.8 km) from Battersea's northeastern corner – but two miles (3.2 km) from the western corner. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Neighbouring_districts">Neighbouring districts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Neighbouring districts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To the east are <a href="/wiki/South_Lambeth" class="mw-redirect" title="South Lambeth">South Lambeth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stockwell" title="Stockwell">Stockwell</a>; to the south is <a href="/wiki/Balham" title="Balham">Balham</a>; to the southeast is <a href="/wiki/Clapham" title="Clapham">Clapham</a>; and to the west is <a href="/wiki/Wandsworth_Town" class="mw-redirect" title="Wandsworth Town">Wandsworth Town</a>, south of which is <a href="/wiki/Wandsworth" title="Wandsworth">Wandsworth</a>. </p><p>Two large neighbourhoods within the larger Battersea are: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clapham_Junction_(area)" title="Clapham Junction (area)">Clapham Junction</a> (the central and most commercial part of Battersea),<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nine_Elms" title="Nine Elms">Nine Elms</a> (to the north-east, east of <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Park" title="Battersea Park">Battersea Park</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Crime">Crime</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Crime"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some parts of Battersea have become known for drug-dealing. The <a href="/wiki/Winstanley_Estate" class="mw-redirect" title="Winstanley Estate">Winstanley and York Road</a> council estates have developed a reputation for such offences and were included in a zero-tolerance "drug exclusion zone" in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-independent_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-independent-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Demography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of 2011<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, Battersea had a population of 73,345.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The district was 52.2% of <a href="/wiki/White_British" title="White British">White British</a> origin,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as against an average for Wandsworth of 53.3%. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Landmarks">Landmarks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Landmarks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Battersea_Dogs_and_Cats_Home_-_geograph.org.uk_-_727844.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Battersea_Dogs_and_Cats_Home_-_geograph.org.uk_-_727844.jpg/230px-Battersea_Dogs_and_Cats_Home_-_geograph.org.uk_-_727844.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Battersea_Dogs_and_Cats_Home_-_geograph.org.uk_-_727844.jpg/345px-Battersea_Dogs_and_Cats_Home_-_geograph.org.uk_-_727844.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Battersea_Dogs_and_Cats_Home_-_geograph.org.uk_-_727844.jpg/460px-Battersea_Dogs_and_Cats_Home_-_geograph.org.uk_-_727844.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="401" /></a><figcaption>Battersea Dogs home (with gasworks alongside)</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Clapham_Junction_South_London.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Clapham_Junction_South_London.JPG/230px-Clapham_Junction_South_London.JPG" decoding="async" width="230" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Clapham_Junction_South_London.JPG/345px-Clapham_Junction_South_London.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Clapham_Junction_South_London.JPG/460px-Clapham_Junction_South_London.JPG 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Clapham Junction station, Battersea</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Asda_and_Boots,_Battersea_-_geograph.org.uk_-_607911.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Asda_and_Boots%2C_Battersea_-_geograph.org.uk_-_607911.jpg/230px-Asda_and_Boots%2C_Battersea_-_geograph.org.uk_-_607911.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Asda_and_Boots%2C_Battersea_-_geograph.org.uk_-_607911.jpg/345px-Asda_and_Boots%2C_Battersea_-_geograph.org.uk_-_607911.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Asda_and_Boots%2C_Battersea_-_geograph.org.uk_-_607911.jpg/460px-Asda_and_Boots%2C_Battersea_-_geograph.org.uk_-_607911.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Large Asda supermarket next to and visible from Clapham Junction Railway Station</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:London_Heliport_-_Battersea_-_London_-_2_helicopters_awaiting_takeoff_-_evening_-_030604.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/London_Heliport_-_Battersea_-_London_-_2_helicopters_awaiting_takeoff_-_evening_-_030604.jpg/230px-London_Heliport_-_Battersea_-_London_-_2_helicopters_awaiting_takeoff_-_evening_-_030604.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="106" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/London_Heliport_-_Battersea_-_London_-_2_helicopters_awaiting_takeoff_-_evening_-_030604.jpg/345px-London_Heliport_-_Battersea_-_London_-_2_helicopters_awaiting_takeoff_-_evening_-_030604.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/London_Heliport_-_Battersea_-_London_-_2_helicopters_awaiting_takeoff_-_evening_-_030604.jpg/460px-London_Heliport_-_Battersea_-_London_-_2_helicopters_awaiting_takeoff_-_evening_-_030604.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1094" data-file-height="506" /></a><figcaption>London Heliport, Battersea</figcaption></figure> <p>Within the bounds of modern Battersea are (from east to west): </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Covent_Garden_Market" title="New Covent Garden Market">New Covent Garden Market</a>, a major fruit and vegetable wholesale market, resited from <a href="/wiki/Covent_Garden" title="Covent Garden">Covent Garden</a> in 1974. (Also considered by many to be in <a href="/wiki/Nine_Elms" title="Nine Elms">Nine Elms</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station" title="Battersea Power Station">Battersea Power Station</a>, an iconic edifice designed by <a href="/wiki/Giles_Gilbert_Scott" title="Giles Gilbert Scott">Sir Giles Gilbert Scott</a>, built between 1929 and 1939 (featured, with flying pig, on the sleeve art of <a href="/wiki/Pink_Floyd" title="Pink Floyd">Pink Floyd</a>'s album <i><a href="/wiki/Animals_(Pink_Floyd_album)" title="Animals (Pink Floyd album)">Animals</a></i>). Since 2021, the power station's disused shell has housed a mass entertainments and commercial complex, with dedicated transport links provided by <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station_tube_station" title="Battersea Power Station tube station">Battersea Power Station tube station</a>, which terminates an extension of the <a href="/wiki/Northern_line" title="Northern line">Northern line</a> from <a href="/wiki/Kennington" title="Kennington">Kennington</a> via <a href="/wiki/Nine_Elms_tube_station" title="Nine Elms tube station">Nine Elms tube station</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_Dogs_and_Cats_Home" class="mw-redirect" title="Battersea Dogs and Cats Home">Battersea Dogs and Cats Home</a>, formerly <i>Battersea Dogs Home</i> and prior to that the <i>Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs</i>, established in <a href="/wiki/Holloway,_London" title="Holloway, London">Holloway</a> in 1860 and moved to Battersea in 1871. It is the United Kingdom's most famous refuge for stray dogs. Also the main location for ITV 1's <i><a href="/wiki/Paul_O%27Grady:_For_the_Love_of_Dogs" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs">Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-Roberts_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roberts-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_Park" title="Battersea Park">Battersea Park</a>, a 200-acre green space laid out by Sir <a href="/wiki/James_Pennethorne" title="James Pennethorne">James Pennethorne</a> between 1846 and 1864 and opened in 1858, and home to a <a href="/wiki/Zoo" title="Zoo">zoo</a> and the London <a href="/wiki/Peace_Pagoda" title="Peace Pagoda">Peace Pagoda</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaftesbury_Park_Estate" title="Shaftesbury Park Estate">Shaftesbury Park Estate</a>, conservation area consisting of over a thousand Victorian houses preserved in their original style.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_Arts_Centre" title="Battersea Arts Centre">Battersea Arts Centre</a>, in the former Battersea <a href="/wiki/Seat_of_local_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Seat of local government">Town Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northcote_Road" title="Northcote Road">Northcote Road</a>, a bustling and famous local shopping street with its own market at the centre of the so-called <a href="/wiki/Nappy_Valley" title="Nappy Valley">Nappy Valley</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clapham_Junction_railway_station" title="Clapham Junction railway station">Clapham Junction railway station</a>, by at least one measure – passenger interchanges<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>— the busiest station in the United Kingdom and named after the neighbouring town of <a href="/wiki/Clapham" title="Clapham">Clapham</a> although it lies in the geographic heart of Battersea, SW11.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arding_%26_Hobbs" title="Arding & Hobbs">Arding & Hobbs</a> building, completed in 1912, occupied by <a href="/wiki/TK_Maxx" title="TK Maxx">TK Maxx</a> and <a href="/wiki/Debenhams" title="Debenhams">Debenhams</a> until the latter's dissolution in June 2021. As of December 2022, the Grade II listed building was undergoing renovation back to its 1920s glory by its owner, the commercial property specialists W.RE, which held extensive consultation with local people in 2020.</li> <li>Large <a href="/wiki/Asda" title="Asda">Asda</a> supermarket, adjacent to Clapham Junction station.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/92_St_John%27s_Hill" title="92 St John's Hill">92 St John's Hill</a>, Grade II listed building.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Battersea" title="St Mary's Church, Battersea">St Mary's Church, Battersea</a>. <a href="/wiki/Benedict_Arnold" title="Benedict Arnold">Benedict Arnold</a> is buried here. Four stained glass windows celebrate Arnold, <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Curtis" title="William Curtis">William Curtis</a> and <a href="/wiki/J._M._W._Turner" title="J. M. W. Turner">J. M. W. Turner</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Walter_St_John%27s_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Walter St John's School">Sir Walter St John's School</a>, now Thomas's day school, was founded in 1700. Parts of the present building date back to 1859.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Academy_of_Dance" title="Royal Academy of Dance">Royal Academy of Dance</a>, containing several studios and associated with the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Surrey" title="University of Surrey">University of Surrey</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/London_Heliport" title="London Heliport">London Heliport</a>, London's busiest <a href="/wiki/Heliport" title="Heliport">heliport</a>, sited on the Thames a half-mile north of Clapham Junction station.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Price%27s_Candles" title="Price's Candles">Price's Candles</a> on York Road, was the largest manufacturers of candles in the UK; now it has been converted into office space from which <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hanne_%26_Co&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hanne & Co (page does not exist)">Hanne & Co</a> Solicitors firm operates.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newton_Preparatory_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Newton Preparatory School">Newton Preparatory School</a>, in an Edwardian building (with modern extension) formerly occupied by <a href="/wiki/Clapham_College" title="Clapham College">Clapham College</a>, Notre Dame School and Raywood Street School.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falconbrook_Primary_School&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Falconbrook Primary School (page does not exist)">Falconbrook Primary School</a>, resides in a large Victorian building, situated in the <a href="/wiki/Winstanley_Estate" class="mw-redirect" title="Winstanley Estate">Winstanley Estate</a>, Battersea.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_Rail">National Rail</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: National Rail"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Battersea is served by three National Rail stations: <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Park_railway_station" title="Battersea Park railway station">Battersea Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clapham_Junction_railway_station" title="Clapham Junction railway station">Clapham Junction</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Queenstown_Road_(Battersea)_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Queenstown Road (Battersea) railway station">Queenstown Road (Battersea)</a>. All three stations are in <a href="/wiki/Oyster_card" title="Oyster card">London Travelcard Zone 2</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Battersea_Park">Battersea Park</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Battersea Park"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Battersea Park is served by some <a href="/wiki/Southern_(train_operating_company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern (train operating company)">Southern</a> trains. </p><p>Trains northbound terminate at <a href="/wiki/London_Victoria_station" title="London Victoria station">London Victoria</a>, which is the next stop along the line. Southbound, Southern's "<a href="/wiki/Rapid_transit" title="Rapid transit">metro</a>" services run to Clapham Junction, <a href="/wiki/Wandsworth_Common_railway_station" title="Wandsworth Common railway station">Wandsworth Common</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Balham_station" title="Balham station">Balham</a>. After Balham, trains head towards <a href="/wiki/Croydon" title="Croydon">Croydon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epsom" title="Epsom">Epsom</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Bridge_station" title="London Bridge station">London Bridge</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sutton,_London" title="Sutton, London">Sutton</a>, amongst other destinations. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Park_railway_station_(1860-1870)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battersea Park railway station (1860-1870)">first station</a> to carry the name "Battersea Park" was opened by the <a href="/wiki/London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway" title="London, Brighton and South Coast Railway">London, Brighton and South Coast Railway</a> (LB&SCR) as "Battersea" on 1 October 1860 and was located at the southern end of what is now Grosvenor Bridge. It closed on 1 November 1870.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The LB&SCR opened another station on a high-level line on 1 May 1867 called <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Park_railway_station" title="Battersea Park railway station">Battersea Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another station existed closed to the current station called <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Park_Road_railway_station" title="Battersea Park Road railway station">Battersea Park Road railway station</a> by the <a href="/wiki/London,_Chatham_and_Dover_Railway" title="London, Chatham and Dover Railway">London, Chatham and Dover Railway</a> in 1867 and closed in 1916. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Clapham_Junction">Clapham Junction</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Clapham Junction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The largest railway station in Battersea is Clapham Junction, to the southwest of the district. The station is a busy interchange, and it serves destinations across London, the <a href="/wiki/Southern_England" title="Southern England">South</a>, and <a href="/wiki/South_West_England" title="South West England">South West England</a>. Train operators from Clapham Junction include: </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/London_Overground" title="London Overground">London Overground</a></b>, which operates trains northbound towards <a href="/wiki/Stratford,_London" title="Stratford, London">Stratford</a>, calling at major destinations such as <a href="/wiki/Shepherd%27s_Bush" title="Shepherd's Bush">Shepherd's Bush</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willesden_Junction_station" title="Willesden Junction station">Willesden Junction</a>, <a href="/wiki/Camden_Road_railway_station" title="Camden Road railway station">Camden Road</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hackney_Central" title="Hackney Central">Hackney Central</a>. London Overground also runs trains eastbound towards <a href="/wiki/Dalston" title="Dalston">Dalston</a>, passing through <a href="/wiki/Clapham" title="Clapham">Clapham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Denmark_Hill" title="Denmark Hill">Denmark Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peckham" title="Peckham">Peckham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canada_Water_station" title="Canada Water station">Canada Water</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Whitechapel_station" title="Whitechapel station">Whitechapel</a> along the way.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Southern_(train_operating_company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern (train operating company)">Southern</a></b>, which principally operates northbound services towards London Victoria. Southbound services run to destinations such as Balham, <a href="/wiki/Brighton" title="Brighton">Brighton</a>, Croydon, Epsom, and <a href="/wiki/Gatwick_Airport" title="Gatwick Airport">Gatwick Airport</a> (<span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/List_of_airports" title="List of airports"><img alt="Airport interchange" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/BSicon_FLUG.svg/13px-BSicon_FLUG.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/BSicon_FLUG.svg/20px-BSicon_FLUG.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/BSicon_FLUG.svg/26px-BSicon_FLUG.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></a></span>). Southern also operates a service towards <a href="/wiki/Milton_Keynes" title="Milton Keynes">Milton Keynes</a> from <a href="/wiki/East_Croydon_station" title="East Croydon station">East Croydon</a>. North of Clapham Junction, the services calls at Shepherd's Bush, <a href="/wiki/Wembley_Central_station" title="Wembley Central station">Wembley Central</a>, <a href="/wiki/Watford_Junction_railway_station" title="Watford Junction railway station">Watford Junction</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hemel_Hempstead" title="Hemel Hempstead">Hemel Hempstead</a>, amongst other destinations.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/South_Western_Railway_(train_operating_company)" class="mw-redirect" title="South Western Railway (train operating company)">South Western Railway</a></b>, which runs services towards <a href="/wiki/London_Waterloo_station" title="London Waterloo station">London Waterloo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vauxhall" title="Vauxhall">Vauxhall</a> northbound. Major destinations to the southwest include <a href="/wiki/Wimbledon,_London" title="Wimbledon, London">Wimbledon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_London" title="Richmond, London">Richmond</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Thames" title="Kingston upon Thames">Kingston upon Thames</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guildford" title="Guildford">Guildford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southampton" title="Southampton">Southampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bournemouth" title="Bournemouth">Bournemouth</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Salisbury" title="Salisbury">Salisbury</a>.</li></ul> <p>In terms of the number of train movements, Clapham Junction is Europe's busiest railway station. It opened on 21 May 1838.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Queenstown_Road_(Battersea)"><span id="Queenstown_Road_.28Battersea.29"></span>Queenstown Road (Battersea)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Queenstown Road (Battersea)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Queenstown Road (Battersea) is served by some <a href="/wiki/South_Western_Railway_(train_operating_company)" class="mw-redirect" title="South Western Railway (train operating company)">South Western Railway</a> trains. Northbound, most trains call at Vauxhall en route to London Waterloo. Southbound passengers can travel towards Richmond, <a href="/wiki/Twickenham" title="Twickenham">Twickenham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hounslow" title="Hounslow">Hounslow</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Windsor_%26_Eton_Riverside_railway_station" title="Windsor & Eton Riverside railway station">Windsor & Eton</a> direct.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Queenstown_Road_(Battersea)_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Queenstown Road (Battersea) railway station">Queenstown Road</a> opened up the line on 1 November 1877 by the <a href="/wiki/London_and_South_Western_Railway" title="London and South Western Railway">London and South Western Railway</a>, as <i>Queen's Road (Battersea)</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Butt_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Butt-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/British_Rail" title="British Rail">British Rail</a> renamed the station to <i>Queenstown Road (Battersea)</i> on 12 May 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-Butt_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Butt-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="London_Underground">London Underground</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: London Underground"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As part of <a href="/wiki/Northern_line_extension_to_Battersea" title="Northern line extension to Battersea">Northern line extension to Battersea</a>, Battersea is connected to the <a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground">London Underground</a> network at <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station_tube_station" title="Battersea Power Station tube station">Battersea Power Station tube station</a> in September 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bus">Bus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Bus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/London_Buses" title="London Buses">London Bus</a> routes <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_44" title="London Buses route 44">44</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_137" title="London Buses route 137">137</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_156" class="mw-redirect" title="London Buses route 156">156</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_211" title="London Buses route 211">211</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_344" class="mw-redirect" title="London Buses route 344">344</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_436" title="London Buses route 436">436</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_19" title="London Buses route 19">19</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_49" class="mw-redirect" title="London Buses route 49">49</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_319" class="mw-redirect" title="London Buses route 319">319</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_345" class="mw-redirect" title="London Buses route 345">345</a> and <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_452" class="mw-redirect" title="London Buses route 452">452</a> serve the Battersea area during the daytime. Night buses <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_N19" class="mw-redirect" title="London Buses route N19">N19</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_N137" class="mw-redirect" title="London Buses route N137">N137</a> and <a href="/wiki/London_Buses_route_N44" class="mw-redirect" title="London Buses route N44">N44</a>, as well as the 344 and 345 route, run overnight. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cycling">Cycling</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Cycling"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Cycling_infrastructure" title="Cycling infrastructure">Cycling infrastructure</a> in Battersea is provided by the <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Wandsworth" title="London Borough of Wandsworth">London Borough of Wandsworth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Transport_for_London" title="Transport for London">Transport for London</a> (TfL).<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_cycle_routes_in_London" title="List of cycle routes in London">Cycle Superhighway 8</a></b> passes through Battersea. The route runs unbroken from <a href="/wiki/Wandsworth" title="Wandsworth">Wandsworth Town</a> to <a href="/wiki/Millbank" title="Millbank">Millbank</a>, which is near the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a>. It is a signposted route, and runs through the district largely along A3205/Battersea Park Road. To the east, however, the route turns northwards (along A3216/Queenstown Road), leaving Battersea over <a href="/wiki/Chelsea_Bridge" title="Chelsea Bridge">Chelsea Bridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A cycle lane links Battersea to <a href="/wiki/Vauxhall" title="Vauxhall">Vauxhall</a> along A3205/Nine Elms Lane.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Battersea features in the books of <a href="/wiki/Michael_de_Larrabeiti" title="Michael de Larrabeiti">Michael de Larrabeiti</a>, who was born and brought up in the area: <i><a href="/wiki/A_Rose_Beyond_the_Thames" title="A Rose Beyond the Thames">A Rose Beyond the Thames</a></i> recounts the working-class Battersea of the 1940s and 1950s; <i><a href="/wiki/The_Borrible_Trilogy" title="The Borrible Trilogy">The Borrible Trilogy</a></i> presents a fictional Battersea, home to fantasy creatures known as the Borribles. The station makes a brief appearance in The <a href="/wiki/Beatles" class="mw-redirect" title="Beatles">Beatles</a>' second film, <i><a href="/wiki/Help!_(film)" title="Help! (film)">Help!</a></i>, in 1965. It also appears during the first daylight attack on London sequence in the 1969 movie Battle of Britain, in the movie as in real life used as a navigational landmark by the attacking Luftwaffe bombers.<i><a href="/wiki/The_Optimists_of_Nine_Elms" title="The Optimists of Nine Elms">The Optimists of Nine Elms</a></i>, a 1973 film starring <a href="/wiki/Peter_Sellers" title="Peter Sellers">Peter Sellers</a>, is set in Battersea. Battersea is also the setting for <a href="/wiki/Penelope_Fitzgerald" title="Penelope Fitzgerald">Penelope Fitzgerald</a>'s 1979 <a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a>–winning novel, <i><a href="/wiki/Offshore_(novel)" title="Offshore (novel)">Offshore</a></i>. Kitty Neale's <i>Nobody's Girl</i> is set in a fictional café and the surrounding Battersea High Street Market. <a href="/wiki/Nell_Dunn" title="Nell Dunn">Nell Dunn</a>'s 1963 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Up_the_Junction" title="Up the Junction">Up the Junction</a></i> (later adapted for both television and cinema) depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea near <a href="/wiki/Clapham_Junction_(area)" title="Clapham Junction (area)">Clapham Junction</a>. Battersea provides the backdrop for the real world scenes in the audio book and app series <i><a href="/wiki/Rockford%27s_Rock_Opera" title="Rockford's Rock Opera">Rockford's Rock Opera</a></i>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Michael_Flanders" title="Michael Flanders">Michael Flanders</a>, half of the 1960s comedy duo Flanders and Swann, often made fun of <a href="/wiki/Donald_Swann" title="Donald Swann">Donald Swann</a> for living in Battersea. <a href="/wiki/Morrissey" title="Morrissey">Morrissey</a> mentions Battersea in his song "<a href="/wiki/You%27re_the_One_for_Me,_Fatty" title="You're the One for Me, Fatty">You're the One for Me, Fatty</a>". <a href="/wiki/Babyshambles" title="Babyshambles">Babyshambles</a> recorded the song "Bollywood to Battersea" for a 2005 charity album <i><a href="/wiki/Help!:_A_Day_in_the_Life" title="Help!: A Day in the Life">Help!: A Day in the Life</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Hooverphonic" title="Hooverphonic">Hooverphonic</a> recorded the song "Battersea" for the 1999 album <i><a href="/wiki/Blue_Wonder_Power_Milk" title="Blue Wonder Power Milk">Blue Wonder Power Milk</a></i>. </p><p>Battersea is the setting for <a href="/wiki/Joan_Aiken" title="Joan Aiken">Joan Aiken</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Hearts_in_Battersea" title="Black Hearts in Battersea">Black Hearts in Battersea</a></i>, the second published volume in the <a href="/wiki/Wolves_Chronicles" class="mw-redirect" title="Wolves Chronicles">Wolves Chronicles</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station" title="Battersea Power Station">Battersea Power Station</a> is featured on the cover of the <a href="/wiki/Pink_Floyd" title="Pink Floyd">Pink Floyd</a> album <i><a href="/wiki/Animals_(Pink_Floyd_album)" title="Animals (Pink Floyd album)">Animals</a></i>. </p><p>A number of race courses in the <a href="/wiki/Nintendo_DS" title="Nintendo DS">Nintendo DS</a> version of the 2009 racing video game <i><a href="/wiki/Dirt_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Dirt 2">Dirt 2</a></i> are set in the general area of Battersea. 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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Battersea%22">"Battersea"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Battersea%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Battersea%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Battersea%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Battersea%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Battersea%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">September 2020</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The following people have lived, or currently live, in Battersea: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Adams" title="Ben Adams">Ben Adams</a> – musician from the group <a href="/wiki/A1_(group)" title="A1 (group)">a1</a></li> <li>Maulana Musa Aiyub Limbada – Imam of Battersea Mosque (The Islamic Culture & Education Centre, Falcon Road) from February 1999 – July 2015</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adele" title="Adele">Adele</a> – singer-songwriter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Aldridge" title="James Aldridge">James Aldridge</a> – writer and journalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Barber" title="Lionel Barber">Lionel Barber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Moore" title="Jane Moore">Jane Moore</a> – journalist, Loose Women panellist.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._S._Bevington" title="L. S. Bevington">L. S. Bevington</a> – anarchist poet and essayist, was born and grew up in a Quaker family on St Johns Hill</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronnie_Biggs" title="Ronnie Biggs">Ronnie Biggs</a> – criminal who took part in the <a href="/wiki/Great_Train_Robbery_(1963)" title="Great Train Robbery (1963)">Great Train Robbery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Briggs_(actor)" title="Johnny Briggs (actor)">Johnny Briggs</a> – actor, best known for playing Mike Baldwin in <i><a href="/wiki/Coronation_Street" title="Coronation Street">Coronation Street</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ada_Buisson" title="Ada Buisson">Ada Buisson</a> – author and novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Byron" title="Kathleen Byron">Kathleen Byron</a> – actress</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emma_Chambers" title="Emma Chambers">Emma Chambers</a> – actress, known for her role as 'Alice' in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Vicar_of_Dibley" title="The Vicar of Dibley">The Vicar of Dibley</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a> – writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Chiles" title="Adrian Chiles">Adrian Chiles</a> – television presenter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a> – dramatist, actor and cabaret artist<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)" title="Brian Cox (physicist)">Brian Cox</a> – physicist, host of science shows for the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Douglas_(actor)" title="Colin Douglas (actor)">Colin Douglas</a> – stage and television actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nell_Dunn" title="Nell Dunn">Nell Dunn</a> – playwright</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Eastman" title="Howard Eastman">Howard Eastman</a> – boxer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craig_Eastmond" title="Craig Eastmond">Craig Eastmond</a> – footballer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hero_Fiennes-Tiffin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hero Fiennes-Tiffin">Hero Fiennes-Tiffin</a> – model and actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Flavell_(Royal_Air_Force_officer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwin Flavell (Royal Air Force officer)">Edwin Flavell (Royal Air Force officer)</a> – pilot of the first British aircraft to drop a live atomic bomb</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freddie_Foreman" title="Freddie Foreman">Freddie Foreman</a> – criminal and associate of the <a href="/wiki/Kray_Twins" class="mw-redirect" title="Kray Twins">Kray Twins</a>, born in Sheepcote Lane</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Geldof" title="Bob Geldof">Bob Geldof</a> – singer and songwriter<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixie_Geldof" title="Pixie Geldof">Pixie Geldof</a> – socialite and model</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Greene" title="Graham Greene">Graham Greene</a> – writer, playwright, critic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rich_Hall" title="Rich Hall">Rich Hall</a> – comedian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_Hammond" title="Reginald Hammond">Reginald Hammond</a> – first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pamela_Hansford_Johnson" title="Pamela Hansford Johnson">Pamela Hansford Johnson</a> – writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ainsley_Harriott" title="Ainsley Harriott">Ainsley Harriott</a> – chef</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lauran_Hibberd" title="Lauran Hibberd">Lauran Hibberd</a> – musician<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Hill" title="Harry Hill">Harry Hill</a> – comedian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ada_Florence_Kinton" title="Ada Florence Kinton">Ada Florence Kinton</a> – artist and Salvation Army officer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derek_Laud" title="Derek Laud">Derek Laud</a> – political lobbyist and <i>Big Brother</i> contestant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Le_Bon" title="Simon Le Bon">Simon Le Bon</a> – musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katie_Leung" title="Katie Leung">Katie Leung</a> – actress, best known for playing <a href="/wiki/Cho_Chang" class="mw-redirect" title="Cho Chang">Cho Chang</a> in Harry Potter films</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monie_Love" title="Monie Love">Monie Love</a> – mc and radio personality</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Maberly" title="Kate Maberly">Kate Maberly</a> – actress</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Manning" title="Terry Manning">Terry Manning</a> – music producer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noel_McKoy" title="Noel McKoy">Noel McKoy</a> – singer and songwriter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buster_Merryfield" title="Buster Merryfield">Buster Merryfield</a> – actor, best known as Uncle Albert in <i><a href="/wiki/Only_Fools_and_Horses" title="Only Fools and Horses">Only Fools and Horses</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dannii_Minogue" title="Dannii Minogue">Dannii Minogue</a> – musician<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_O%27Casey" title="Seán O'Casey">Seán O'Casey</a> – writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_O%27Farrell_(author)" title="John O'Farrell (author)">John O'Farrell</a> – writer<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Page_(historian)" title="William Page (historian)">William Page</a> – historian and general editor of the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_County_History" title="Victoria County History">Victoria County History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polly_Paulusma" title="Polly Paulusma">Polly Paulusma</a> – musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mervyn_Peake" title="Mervyn Peake">Mervyn Peake</a> – author<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rupert_Penry-Jones" title="Rupert Penry-Jones">Rupert Penry-Jones</a> – actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Ramsay" title="Gordon Ramsay">Gordon Ramsay</a> – chef</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joely_Richardson" title="Joely Richardson">Joely Richardson</a> – actress</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J.K._Rowling" class="mw-redirect" title="J.K. Rowling">J.K. Rowling</a> – author<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Rusedski" title="Greg Rusedski">Greg Rusedski</a> – tennis player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Scott_(sociologist)" title="John Scott (sociologist)">John Scott</a> – sociologist and <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy" title="Fellow of the British Academy">Fellow of the British Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Serafinowicz" title="Peter Serafinowicz">Peter Serafinowicz</a> – comedian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Shearing" title="George Shearing">George Shearing</a> – pianist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Sheeran" title="Ed Sheeran">Ed Sheeran</a> – musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timothy_Spall" title="Timothy Spall">Timothy Spall</a> – actor<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span 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Society Movement</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wilberforce" title="William Wilberforce">William Wilberforce</a> – prominent campaigner against the <a href="/wiki/History_of_slavery" title="History of slavery">slave trade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Adrian_Wilson" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Adrian Wilson">Edward Adrian Wilson</a> – English physician, polar explorer, natural historian, painter and ornithologist</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battersea&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nappy_Valley" title="Nappy Valley">Nappy Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seax_of_Beagnoth" title="Seax of Beagnoth">Seax of Beagnoth</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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Historical Publications Ltd., 2002. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-948667-76-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-948667-76-1">0-948667-76-1</a>.</li> <li>Peter Mason, <i>The Brown Dog Affair</i>. Two Sevens Publishing, 1997. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9529854-0-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-9529854-0-3">0-9529854-0-3</a>.</li> <li>Martin Knight, <i>Battersea Girl</i>. 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href="/wiki/Wandsworth" title="Wandsworth">Wandsworth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Balham" title="Balham">Balham</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Balham" title="Balham">Balham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clapham" title="Clapham">Clapham</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Clapham" title="Clapham">Clapham</a></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="London_Borough_of_Wandsworth651" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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Wandsworth">Districts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Balham" title="Balham">Balham</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Battersea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clapham" title="Clapham">Clapham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earlsfield" title="Earlsfield">Earlsfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Furzedown" title="Furzedown">Furzedown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nine_Elms" title="Nine Elms">Nine Elms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putney" title="Putney">Putney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wimbledon_Common" title="Wimbledon Common">Putney Heath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putney_Vale" title="Putney Vale">Putney Vale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roehampton" title="Roehampton">Roehampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southfields" title="Southfields">Southfields</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Streatham_Park" title="Streatham Park">Streatham Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Summerstown,_London" title="Summerstown, London">Summerstown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tooting" title="Tooting">Tooting</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(including Tooting Graveney and Upper Tooting)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wandsworth" title="Wandsworth">Wandsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Hill,_Wandsworth" title="West Hill, Wandsworth">West Hill</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="7" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_the_London_Borough_of_Wandsworth.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of Wandsworth"><img alt="Coat of arms of Wandsworth" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Coat_of_arms_of_the_London_Borough_of_Wandsworth.svg/100px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_London_Borough_of_Wandsworth.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="86" class="mw-file-element" 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Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grace_Theatre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Grace Theatre (page does not exist)">Grace Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Covent_Garden_Market" title="New Covent Garden Market">New Covent Garden Market</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Wandsworth_Museum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New Wandsworth Museum (page does not exist)">New Wandsworth Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pump_House_Gallery" title="Pump House Gallery">Pump House Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre503" title="Theatre503">Theatre503</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theatre_of_the_Dispossessed&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Theatre of the Dispossessed (page does not exist)">Theatre of the Dispossessed</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_London" title="List of bridges in London">Bridges and tunnels</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Bridge,_London" title="Albert Bridge, London">Albert Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_Bridge" title="Battersea Bridge">Battersea Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_Railway_Bridge" title="Battersea Railway Bridge">Battersea Railway Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chelsea_Bridge" title="Chelsea Bridge">Chelsea Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulham_Railway_Bridge" title="Fulham Railway Bridge">Fulham Railway Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grosvenor_Bridge" title="Grosvenor Bridge">Grosvenor Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putney_Bridge" title="Putney Bridge">Putney Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wandsworth_Bridge" title="Wandsworth Bridge">Wandsworth Bridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Parks_and_open_spaces_in_the_London_Borough_of_Wandsworth" title="Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Wandsworth">Parks and open spaces</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_Park" title="Battersea Park">Battersea Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clapham_Common" title="Clapham Common">Clapham Common</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_George%27s_Park" title="King George's Park">King George's Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tooting_Bec_Common" class="mw-redirect" title="Tooting Bec Common">Tooting Bec Common</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wandsworth_Common" title="Wandsworth Common">Wandsworth Common</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wandsworth_Park" title="Wandsworth Park">Wandsworth Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wimbledon_Park" title="Wimbledon Park">Wimbledon Park</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=York_Gardens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="York Gardens (page does not exist)">York Gardens</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Wandsworth#Politics" title="London Borough of Wandsworth">Constituencies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Battersea (UK Parliament constituency)">Battersea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Putney (UK Parliament constituency)">Putney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tooting_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Tooting (UK Parliament constituency)">Tooting</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Wandsworth#Transport" title="London Borough of Wandsworth">Tube and rail stations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground"><img alt="London Underground" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/10px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/15px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/20px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="406" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/National_Rail" title="National Rail"><img alt="National Rail" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/12px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/18px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/24px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="62" data-file-height="39" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Balham_station" title="Balham station">Balham</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/National_Rail" title="National Rail"><img alt="National Rail" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/12px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/18px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/24px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="62" data-file-height="39" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Park_railway_station" title="Battersea Park railway station">Battersea Park</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground"><img alt="London Underground" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/10px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/15px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/20px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="406" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station_tube_station" title="Battersea Power Station tube station">Battersea Power Station</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/National_Rail" title="National Rail"><img alt="National Rail" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/12px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/18px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/24px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="62" data-file-height="39" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/West_London_line" title="West London line"><img alt="West London line" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Overground_roundel_%28no_text%29.svg/10px-Overground_roundel_%28no_text%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Overground_roundel_%28no_text%29.svg/15px-Overground_roundel_%28no_text%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Overground_roundel_%28no_text%29.svg/20px-Overground_roundel_%28no_text%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="520" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Clapham_Junction_railway_station" title="Clapham Junction railway station">Clapham Junction</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground"><img alt="London Underground" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/10px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/15px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/20px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="406" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Clapham_South_tube_station" title="Clapham South tube station">Clapham South</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/National_Rail" title="National Rail"><img alt="National Rail" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/12px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/18px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/24px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="62" data-file-height="39" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Earlsfield_railway_station" title="Earlsfield railway station">Earlsfield</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground"><img alt="London Underground" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/10px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/15px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/20px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="406" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/East_Putney_tube_station" title="East Putney tube station">East Putney</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground"><img alt="London Underground" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/10px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/15px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/20px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="406" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Nine_Elms_tube_station" title="Nine Elms tube station">Nine Elms</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/National_Rail" title="National Rail"><img alt="National Rail" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/12px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/18px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/24px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="62" data-file-height="39" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Putney_railway_station" title="Putney railway station">Putney</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/National_Rail" title="National Rail"><img alt="National Rail" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/12px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/18px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/24px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="62" data-file-height="39" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Queenstown_Road_railway_station" title="Queenstown Road railway station">Queenstown Road (Battersea)</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground"><img alt="London Underground" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/10px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="8" class="mw-file-element" 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href="/wiki/Tooting_railway_station" title="Tooting railway station">Tooting</a> (in LB of Merton)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground"><img alt="London Underground" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/10px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/15px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/20px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="406" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Tooting_Bec_tube_station" title="Tooting Bec tube station">Tooting Bec</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground"><img alt="London Underground" 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End</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Metropolitan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bromley" title="Bromley">Bromley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croydon" title="Croydon">Croydon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ealing" title="Ealing">Ealing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrow,_London" title="Harrow, London">Harrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hounslow" title="Hounslow">Hounslow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilford" title="Ilford">Ilford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Thames" title="Kingston upon Thames">Kingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romford" title="Romford">Romford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shepherd%27s_Bush" title="Shepherd's Bush">Shepherd's Bush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stratford,_London" title="Stratford, London">Stratford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutton,_London" title="Sutton, London">Sutton</a></li> 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href="/wiki/Clapham_Junction_railway_station" title="Clapham Junction railway station">Clapham Junction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalston" title="Dalston">Dalston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Ham" title="East Ham">East Ham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgware" title="Edgware">Edgware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eltham" title="Eltham">Eltham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enfield_Town" class="mw-redirect" title="Enfield Town">Enfield Town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulham" title="Fulham">Fulham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hammersmith" title="Hammersmith">Hammersmith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nag%27s_Head,_London" title="Nag's Head, London">Holloway Nags Head</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kensington_High_Street" title="Kensington High Street">Kensington High Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilburn,_London" title="Kilburn, London">Kilburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Road" title="King's Road">King's Road East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewisham" title="Lewisham">Lewisham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orpington" title="Orpington">Orpington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peckham" title="Peckham">Peckham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putney" title="Putney">Putney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond,_London" title="Richmond, London">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southall" title="Southall">Southall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Streatham" title="Streatham">Streatham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tooting" title="Tooting">Tooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walthamstow" title="Walthamstow">Walthamstow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wandsworth" title="Wandsworth">Wandsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wembley" title="Wembley">Wembley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wimbledon,_London" title="Wimbledon, London">Wimbledon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woolwich" title="Woolwich">Woolwich</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Districts<br /><span style="font-weight:normal">(principal)</span></th><td 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href="/wiki/Coulsdon" title="Coulsdon">Coulsdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cricklewood" title="Cricklewood">Cricklewood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagenham" title="Dagenham">Dagenham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deptford" title="Deptford">Deptford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dulwich" title="Dulwich">Dulwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmonton,_London" title="Edmonton, London">Edmonton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elephant_and_Castle" title="Elephant and Castle">Elephant and Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erith" title="Erith">Erith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feltham" title="Feltham">Feltham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finchley" title="Finchley">Finchley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forest_Gate" title="Forest Gate">Forest Gate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forest_Hill,_London" title="Forest Hill, London">Forest Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golders_Green" title="Golders Green">Golders Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenwich" title="Greenwich">Greenwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harlesden" title="Harlesden">Harlesden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampstead" title="Hampstead">Hampstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harringay" title="Harringay">Harringay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hayes,_Hillingdon" title="Hayes, Hillingdon">Hayes (Hillingdon)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hendon" title="Hendon">Hendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hornchurch" title="Hornchurch">Hornchurch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kentish_Town" title="Kentish Town">Kentish Town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leyton" title="Leyton">Leyton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mill_Hill" title="Mill Hill">Mill Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitcham" title="Mitcham">Mitcham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morden" title="Morden">Morden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muswell_Hill" title="Muswell Hill">Muswell Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Cross" title="New Cross">New Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Malden" title="New Malden">New Malden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northwood,_London" title="Northwood, London">Northwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Notting_Hill" title="Notting Hill">Notting Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penge" title="Penge">Penge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinner" title="Pinner">Pinner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purley,_London" title="Purley, London">Purley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruislip" title="Ruislip">Ruislip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidcup" title="Sidcup">Sidcup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southgate,_London" title="Southgate, London">Southgate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Norwood" title="South Norwood">South Norwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanmore" title="Stanmore">Stanmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stoke_Newington" title="Stoke Newington">Stoke Newington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surbiton" title="Surbiton">Surbiton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydenham,_London" title="Sydenham, London">Sydenham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teddington" title="Teddington">Teddington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thamesmead" title="Thamesmead">Thamesmead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolworth" title="Tolworth">Tolworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tulse_Hill" title="Tulse Hill">Tulse Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twickenham" title="Twickenham">Twickenham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upminster" title="Upminster">Upminster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upper_Norwood" title="Upper Norwood">Upper Norwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wanstead" title="Wanstead">Wanstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wealdstone" title="Wealdstone">Wealdstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welling" title="Welling">Welling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Ham" title="West Ham">West Ham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Hampstead" title="West Hampstead">West Hampstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Norwood" title="West Norwood">West Norwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitechapel" title="Whitechapel">Whitechapel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willesden" title="Willesden">Willesden Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodford,_London" title="Woodford, London">Woodford</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Neighbourhoods<br /><span style="font-weight:normal">(principal)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abbey_Wood" title="Abbey Wood">Abbey Wood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alperton" title="Alperton">Alperton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anerley" title="Anerley">Anerley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archway,_London" title="Archway, London">Archway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barnes,_London" title="Barnes, London">Barnes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barnsbury" title="Barnsbury">Barnsbury</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Battersea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beckton" title="Beckton">Beckton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bermondsey" title="Bermondsey">Bermondsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bow,_London" title="Bow, London">Bow</a></li> <li><a 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