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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
* Clapham Junction railway station, by at least one measure — passenger interchanges — the busiest station in the United Kingdom and named after the neighbouring town of Clapham although it lies in the geographic heart of Battersea, SW11.
* 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 ).

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The core section of the route would be from Finsbury Park to Clapham Junction via Moorgate, Bank and Waterloo, with a new connection at Blackfriars.
The regular daily milk train was from Torrington, but milk trains from all over the West Country would stop at Clapham Junction in the evening, and reduce their length by half so that they did not block Vauxhall station while unloading.
Unloaded trains would then proceed to Waterloo, where they would reverse and return to Clapham Junction to pick up the other half of the train.
Pitt would come to serve as her manager and the two married in 1923 at Clapham Register Office.
Clapham announced he would stand down at the next general election ; his constituency became part of the new constituency of Penistone and Stocksbridge.
Work is ongoing to see if from May 2012 the service would run to Clapham High Street.
East Croydon, Clapham Junction and Walthamstow Central were the worst in terms of total number of crimes, as would be expected for the busiest stations.
The question to be asked is whether this mythical creature ( the man in the Clapham omnibus of patent law ) would, in the light of the state of the art and of common general knowledge as at the claimed date of invention, have come directly and without difficulty to the solution taught by the patent .”
There would be a branch at Clapham, Yorkshire to Lancaster, to make an end-on connection with an associated company.
In the absence of shirt numbering, which would not be introduced for another sixty years, the programme identifies the individual players by the colours of their stockings ( socks ) or caps, with Alcock and Kinnaird both listed as wearing blue and white caps and Jarvis Kenrick identified by his cerise and French grey cap, the colours of his former club Clapham Rovers.
* Portrayal of daily life in Clapham / Battersea area ( the song begins " I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham ")

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Some of South London's priciest residential streets can be found in Clapham, including The Chase, Macaulay Road, Orlando Road, Grafton Square, Elms Grove, Elms Road and Rodenhurst Road as well as the North, South and West sides of Clapham Common.
The Overground East London tube line is due to be extended to Clapham High Street and Wandsworth Road in the Old Town, on 9 December 2012.
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.
The principal factors are location and transport, but other factors which may have contributed include the widening of the corporate-professional employment sector in central London, starting in the 1980s and the effect of rising property prices in districts north of the river, and ( more recently ), nearby Clapham and Battersea, causing Kennington to be " rediscovered ".
Until 1889, the county of Surrey included the present-day London borough of Lambeth, when drawing up boundaries for the London Boroughs, the Government had initially suggested that Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth and the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark should be merged to form a new borough, with the southern and eastern section of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth ( including Clapham, Streatham and Tooting ) forming another.
Young held that in Clapham and Streatham, people must be more familiar with Brixton than with Wandsworth, and therefore recommended that a new borough be formed from the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth together with six wards and parts of two others from the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
By the influence of his brother-in-law, Sir John Temple, M. P., Hammond was at length removed to the house of Philip Warwick at Clapham, Bedfordshire, where he was to be kept under light restraint.
In February 1999, the Clapham Park area was selected by a borough-wide strategic partnership to be Lambeth ’ s New Deal for Communities ( NDC ) neighbourhood.
The regeneration programme has been funded in part by the Housing Corporation ’ s Social Housing grant ; the NDC grant through Clapham Park Project ; and through private loans, a large proportion of which will be paid back through the outright sale of homes, mixed tenures and the balance from rental income.
In 1900, Stockwell ceased to be a terminus, after the opening of an extension to Clapham Common.
Nearby railway stations offer services to other destinations: London Bridge station can be reached from North Dulwich ; and Denmark Hill will have trains to Clapham Junction in south-west London and Dalston Junction in north-east London when Phase II of London Overground's East London line extension is completed in December 2012.
He considered himself to be the least intelligent of their children ( brothers Frank, George and Horace were all elected Fellows of the Royal Society ) and was sent to Clapham School in 1862.
The man on the Clapham omnibus is a reasonably educated and intelligent but non-specialist person, against whom the conduct of the defendant can be measured.
Clapham, who had endured a 2, 700-kilometre route march through sweltering German East Africa, wanted the memorial to be a unique test of the physical endurance of the entrants.
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.
It is predicted that over the coming decades Clapham and Patching will be slowly absorbed into Durrington as more houses continue to be built.

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