Clapham which borough

Lambeth is the 8th most deprived borough in London and 22nd most deprived in England. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Brixton is mainly residential with a prominent street market and substantial retail sector. It is a multiethnic community, with a large percentage of its population of Afro-Caribbean descent.

Website optional. By it was in a dilapidated state and a new church called Holy Trinity was built on a new site beside a street called The Pavement, consecrated in Back at the original site, a new church was built in and the two churches both remain to this day.

Above: Streets around Clapham showing the old original village and the nearby Clapham Junction Station. The village developed beside the vast Clapham Common. The houses have always had a village air about them because of the large open space nearby. The common is essentially flat land, as is the village, but you soon notice the hill — from which the place name derived — if you travel north out of the village.

Many of the roads — like The Chase or Victoria Rise — which drop away from the plateau towards the Thames. The recent history of Clapham is unusual. When Metropolitan London was created in , by the London Government Act of , 28 Metropolitan Boroughs were formed within the metropolitan boundary. Clapham became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth. In , when the Metropolitan Boroughs were combined into larger administrative units, Clapham was transferred from the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth to the London Borough of Lambeth.

This also applied to Streatham. They were the only two parishes to be moved from one administration to another within Inner London in To the north is Battersea.

To the west is Wandsworth and to the south is Balham. These last three places are all within the London Borough of Wandsworth. They are shielded to a certain extent from the busy through traffic on the A3, the A24 and the South Circular Road. Last year we were considering Lambeth which, as well as being the name of an old village, is also the name of a London Borough.

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