To the north, Kew Bridge railway station is about a 10-minute walk from the Main Gate entrance, with trains to Clapham Junction and Waterloo.

Among the most interesting and mysterious remnants of this era are the so-called cart ruts as they can be seen at a place on Malta called Clapham Junction.

There is a low ridge from Messines Ridge 80m ( 264 feet ) at its highest point, running north-east past " Clapham Junction " at the west end of Gheluvelt plateau ( 2 1 / 2 miles from Ypres at and Gheluvelt ( above ) to Passchendaele, ( 5 1 / 2 miles from Ypres at ) declining from there to a plain further north.

It has more platforms and a greater floor area than any other station in the UK ( but Clapham Junction, just under four miles ( 6 km ) down the line, has the largest number of trains ).

Taking the name of a fashionable village a mile and more away, the station was named Clapham Junction.

The railway station encouraged the government to site its buildings-the town hall, library, police station, court and post office in the area surrounding Clapham Junction ; the Arding and Hobbs department store, diagonally opposite the station, was the largest of its type at the time of its construction in 1885 ; and the area was served by a vast music hall-The Grand-opposite the station and nowadays serving as a nightclub and venue for smaller bands.

Winstanley is situated behind Clapham Junction railway station in the northern perimeter of Battersea.

Large Asda supermarket next to and visible from Clapham Junction Railway Station

* Large 24 hour Asda supermarket, adjacent to Clapham Junction station.

* The London Heliport, London's busiest heliport, sited on the Thames a half mile north of Clapham Junction station.

* Clapham Junction

* SW11tch Back to Battersea, a campaign to avoid confusion between Clapham and Clapham Junction

There are railway stations at Clapham High Street and Wandsworth Road which link Clapham to Victoria, London Bridge and Clapham Junction.

Planning permission has been granted to open Surrey Canal Road station which will be on the East London Line phase 2 extension to Clapham Junction station.

Because tram and bus routes converged at Kennington, in the 1920s St. Mark's became known as the " tramwayman's church ", and Kennington was referred to as the " Clapham Junction of the southern roads ".

* Clapham Junction railway station

Trains also stop at Clapham Junction, Vauxhall and Raynes Park.

Nearest railway stations are Wandsworth Town railway station ; Wandsworth Common railway station, ( one stop from Clapham Junction, and 12 minutes train ride from Victoria ); and Earlsfield railway station, ( one stop from Clapham Junction, and 12 minutes train ride from Waterloo Station ).

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 Battersea Park, Clapham Common, Wandsworth Common 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.

* Clapham High Street railway station

Clapham Junction railway station is located in Battersea, rather than Clapham.

* Clapham High Street railway station

The title refers to Lavender Hill, a street in Battersea, a district of South London, in the postcode district SW11, near to Clapham Junction railway station.

Clapham Junction railway station is near St John's Hill in the south-west of Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

The engineering of the Morden extension of the C & SLR from Clapham Common to Morden was more demanding, running in tunnels to a point just north of Morden station, which was constructed in a cutting.

* Clapham North tube station

It has also given its name to the Vauxhall Parliamentary Constituency, which also includes parts of Brixton and Clapham, and to the Vauxhall Motors car manufacturer, which originated in the area, as well as to the Russian word for a large railroad station ( see below ).

* Ron Davies resigns from the cabinet after being robbed by a man he met at Clapham Common and then lying about it ( 1998 )

* Beige Planet Mars ( 1998 ) by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham, a novel in Virgin Publishing's New Adventures series is set on a terraformed Mars which has become a retirement home for Earth's wealthy elderly.

The group's name originates from Clapham Common, an area south-west of London then surrounded by fashionable villas.

The phrase ' Clapham Sect ' was a later invention by James Stephen in an article of 1844 which celebrated and romanticized the work of these reformers.

Balham is situated between four south London commons: Clapham Common to the north, Wandsworth Common to the west, Tooting Graveney Common to the south, and the adjoining Tooting Bec Common to the east – the latter two historically distinct areas are referred to by both Wandsworth Council and some local people as Tooting Common.

* Newton Preparatory School, in an Edwardian building ( with modern extension ) formerly occupied by Clapham College, Notre Dame School and Raywood Street School.

Clapham is well known for its extensive 220 acre green space Clapham Common, which features three ponds and is overlooked by large Georgian and Victorian mansions, and the village-like atmosphere of its historic Old Town.

Clapham is famous as the home of Holy Trinity Clapham the Georgian Church on Clapham Common, from where The Clapham Sect led by William Wilberforce and a group of upper class evangelical Christians campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade in the 19th century.

The ancient status of that military road is recorded on a Roman stone now placed by the entrance of Clapham Library in the Old Town, which was discovered during building operations at Clapham Common South Side in 1912.

According to the history of the Clapham family maintained by the College of Heralds, in 965 King Edgar of England gave a grant of land at Clapham to Jonas, son of the Duke of Lorraine, and Jonas was thenceforth known as Jonas " de Clapham ".

In the late 17th century, large country houses began to be built there, and throughout the 18th and early 19th century it was favoured by the wealthier merchant classes of the City of London, who built many large and gracious houses and villas around Clapham Common and in the Old Town.

After the coming of the railways, Clapham developed as a suburb for commuters into central London, and by 1900 it had fallen from favour with the upper classes.

They were discovered playing in a pub in Clapham, South London by Alan Anger, punk journalist. Their name at first was The Sneekers and they were a part of the Powerpop bands that included The Pleasers.

29 Clapham Common Northside ) is a Georgian house of five bays and three stories, designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell as his own home.