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Battersea history

Battersea was for centuries since the 9th century centred on many of its cottages which stood by the then-founded St. Mary’s Church. The ancient parish turned “district” has remained only in a few non-administrative terms a part of Surrey since 1889.

Agriculture

Before the Industrial Revolution, much of the large parish was farmland, providing food for the City of London and surrounding population centres . At the end of the 18th century, above 300 acres (1.2 km) 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 . Villages in the wider area: Wandsworth, Earlsfield (hamlet of Garratt), Tooting, Balham – were separated by fields .

Industry

Battersea Industry photo

Industry in the area was concentrated to the northwest just outside the Battersea-Wandsworth boundary, at the confluence of the River Thames and the River Wandle, which gave rise to the village of Wandsworth . Protestant craftsmen – Huguenots – fled religious persecution in Europe, who planted lavender and gardens .

Railway age

Battersea Railway age photo

The London and Southampton Railway Company engineered their railway line from east to west through Battersea, in 1838, terminating at the original Nine Elms railway station . Over the next 22 years five other lines were built, across which all trains from London’s Waterloo and Victoria termini would travel . 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 ‘Clapham Junction’

Social housing estates

Battersea Social housing estates photo

Battersea has a long and varied history of social housing . The completion of the Shaftesbury Park Estate in 1877 was one of the earliest in London or the UK . The Latchmere Estate was the first estate directly built by a council’s own workforce and therefore the first true “council estate”

  

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