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Clapham and is
Some 20th-century historians such as John Clapham and Nicholas Crafts have argued that the process of economic and social change took place gradually and the term revolution is a misnomer.
* 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.
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.
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.
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.
Winstanley is situated behind Clapham Junction railway station in the northern perimeter of Battersea.
To the east is Lambeth ; on the south are Camberwell and Streatham, on the south-east is Clapham and on the west Wandsworth.
Clapham Common is shared with the London Borough of Wandsworth, although Lambeth has responsibility for running the common as a whole.
Clapham is made up of Clapham Common and Clapham Town and the northern part of Thornton ward ( the southern part is in Balham ).
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.
Abbeville or the Village is an affluent district within Clapham lying between Clapham Common South Side and Clarence Avenue and is synonymous with the Clapham Common Ward.

Clapham and district
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.
When the station was built Battersea was regarded as a poor district while Clapham, a mile east, was more fashionable.
Clapham is a village in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England.
Levy was born in the affluent south-west district of London, Clapham, on the 10th of November in 1861.
At its north-western tip it includes half of Clapham Common, while in the north-east it takes in part of the district of Brixton which is also split between neighbouring Vauxhall and Dulwich and West Norwood.

Clapham and south
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.
Following his father's death, Henry bought another house in town and also a house in Clapham Common, to the south of London.
The station is located at the junction of Kennington Park Road ( heading north-east ), Camberwell New Road ( south-east ), Clapham Road ( south west ) and Harleyford Street ( north west ) and is about 500 yards from the Oval cricket ground.
John Venn who had been the rector of Clapham in south London.
Heathrow Airtrack was a proposed rail link from Heathrow Airport running south to the Staines to Windsor Line to provide direct services to London Waterloo, calling at Clapham Junction, and to Reading and to Guildford.
Also in 1924, Pick commissioned Holden to design seven new stations in south London for the extension of the City and South London Railway ( now part of the Northern line ) from Clapham Common to Morden.
Clapham Park is an area in the Borough of Lambeth in London, to the south of central Clapham and west of Brixton.
With the adoption of Poynders Road as the arterial " South Circular " road, this area is now severed from the area further south by traffic, and the streets south of Poynders Road are not generally referred to as being part of Clapham Park.
Mantell's surgery, on the south side of Clapham Common, is now a dental surgery.
After attending Streatham & Clapham High School, in south London, she began work as a journalist on the Croydon Advertiser, following in the footsteps of her father.
The station opened in June 1900 as part of an extension of the City & South London Railway to Clapham Common one stop to the south.
It runs south from Clapham in southwest London through Morden before entering Surrey and heading through Ewell, Epsom, Ashtead, Leatherhead and Dorking.
Clapham in south London at the time was a nondescript commuter suburb seen to represent " ordinary " London.
The return to Clapham can be varied by taking the Horton-in-Ribblesdale path for two miles ( 3 km ) before striking south through more limestone pavement to the small top of Norber ; a descent past the famed Norber erratics ( Norber Boulders ) finishes a walk of eleven and half miles that Wainwright considered to be the finest walk in the Yorkshire Dales.
Eventually, much of this collection was displayed at the Museum of British Transport at Clapham, south London.
Clapham Common is an triangular area of grassland situated in south London, England.
He was born in Clapham, south London, during World War II and some of his earliest memories are of the Blitz.
A turn-off from the A280 a few hundred metres to the south of The Street leads into Brickworks Lane ( although this name is not often commonly used ), named after the brickworks of the Clapham Common Brick & Tile Company which was based there from the early 20th century up until the 1970s, although the quantities of clay available meant that there had been brickmaking activity on the site since the 18th century.

Clapham and west
* Wandsworth ; later renamed Clapham Common, on the northern margin of Wandsworth Common, about half a mile west of the present Clapham Junction which replaced it ;
From the 1880s the area to the west of Cubitt's land holdings between Clapham Common Southside and the site of Lincoln House was also developed.
On the southern side ( to the west of the Clapham path ) is a similar plateau, this one containing potholes such as Fluted Hole and Pillar Hole.
The area now houses young families attracted by the affordability of the area in comparison to its north, west and eastern neighbours Clapham, Wandsworth, Battersea and Putney leading to the area's nickname of Nappy Valley.
The line of the road runs south west from London Bridge, closely followed by the Northern Line through Clapham and Tooting up to Colliers Wood and Merton.
Ealing Council desires to have the line connected to the south west to Clapham Junction via the West London Line, and to the north west to West Ruislip.
The station was originally the terminus of the Clapham branch line, which began at Mitcham station, and the original station was to the west of the more recent platforms ( which were on the main line ); this explains the unusual layout of the intersection of the local roads west of the Springbank Road overpass ( opened 1924 ).
In the early half of the 1970s, milk trains for the Southern Region were a staple for the class as far as Acton Yard, requiring diesel power from Clapham Junction through Kensington and onto the Western Region mainline ( Class 52 or occasionally Class 47 were used for the major haul west of Acton to and from Cornwall and Devon ).

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