By 1907 the C & SLR had been further extended at both ends to run from Clapham Common to Euston.

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.

In 2009 Sasha & Digweed headlined the very successful SW4 festival in London's Clapham Common.

However the L & SWR adopted the Richmond line and so had four tracks from the junction of the routes, just east of the present Clapham Junction station, to Waterloo Bridge.

Clapham Junction station opened on 2 March 1863, a joint venture of the L & SWR, the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ) and the West London Extension Railway ( WLER ) as an interchange station for their lines.

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The MDR route from Richmond to central London via Hammersmith was more direct than those of the NLR via, of the L & SWR and the MR via Grove Road station and of the L & SWR via Clapham Junction to Waterloo.

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.

The station is at the eastern tip of Clapham Common and was opened in June 1900 as the new southern terminus of the City & South London Railway, which was extended from Stockwell.

This line was opened in 1863, and the LB & SCR operated passenger trains between Clapham Junction and Kensington.

LB & SCR stations at major junctions on the system included Clapham Junction,,, Horsham, and.

Trains serve a variety of destinations including Central London ( with Waterloo, Victoria & London Bridge served ), Clapham Junction, Wimbledon, Worcester Park, Balham, West Croydon, Sutton, Leatherhead, Effingham Junction, Guildford, Dorking and Horsham.

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.

For many years the green there was the home ground of Clapham & Patching Cricket Club, but the club was forced to merge with the local Littlehampton club in 2000 and now plays home matches there.

* 1898: an extension of time for the 1896 Act, plans to add sidings to the southern extension at Clapham Common and plans to sell King William Street station and its approach tunnels to the newly proposed City and Brixton Railway ( C & BR ).

While the reconstruction works were underway, the C & SLR submitted a bill in 1922 that contained proposals to extend the line south from Clapham Common through Balham and Tooting to Morden in tunnel.

* Clapham Bedford Bed & Breakfast accommodation and information

The parish of Pertenhall & Swineshead is part of the Stodden Hundred ( which comprises Bolnhurst, Clapham, Dean and Shelton, Keysoe, Knotting, Little Staughton, Melchbourne, Milton Ernest, Oakley, Pertenhall, Riseley, Shelton, Tilbrook and Yelden ).

4TC units were occasionally seen on other duties such Waterloo to Salisbury, the Clapham Junction to Kensington Olympia shuttle before that line was electrified and surplus units were also used on Sundays to operate Portsmouth Harbour to Reading direct services during the late 1970s & early 1980s.

* 2 trains per hour to London Waterloo ( Platform 1 calling at: Aldershot, Ash Vale, Brookwood, Woking, West Byfleet, Surbiton & Clapham Junction ( hourly )

* Two trains per hour between Waterloo and Guildford, calling at Vauxhall, Clapham Junction, Earlsfield, Wimbledon, Surbiton and all stations to Guildford via Oxshott and Cobham & Stoke d ' Abernon.

It is predicted that over the coming decades Clapham and Patching will be slowly absorbed into Durrington as more houses continue to be built.

* Clapham and Patching Bonfire Club

The Clapham Sect or Clapham Saints were a group of influential like-minded Church of England social reformers based in Clapham, London at the beginning of the 19th century ( active c. 1790 – 1830 ).

* John Venn ( 1750 – 1813 ), Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Clapham

Among Forster's ancestors were members of the Clapham Sect, a social reform group within the Church of England.

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.

Thomas was educated at Macaulay Church of England Primary School, Victoria Rise, Clapham until 1974, where his party trick was to recite the first verses of the four gospels from memory, and then the independent Christ's Hospital School, where he attained O-levels and A-levels.

In 1851, Booth joined the Reformers ( Methodist Reform Church ), and on 10 April 1852, his 23rd birthday, he left pawnbroking and became a full-time preacher at their headquarters at Binfield Chapel in Clapham.

In the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds, it is a Church of England poor boys ' school originally taught by six elderly men, ancillary to the Bedale Poor Law, founded in 1608 by John Clapham of London, a Chancery clerk for Queen Elizabeth's William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley-whose son and heir Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter held possession of neighbouring Snape, part of the larger Middleham estate which they inherited from Lord Latymer, before the Milbanks moved in from Halnaby.

He is a parishioner of St Mary's Catholic Church, Clapham.

with Christ Church: – Starting from the meeting point of the parishes of St. George, St. Michael, and Christ Church and proceeding in a southerly direction along the plantation track and the boundary between the residential development called Fort George Heights and the Kent House residential development to the junction of the boundary with the public road called Highway R ; then in a westerly direction along Highway R to its junction at Wildey with the Airport to West Coast Highway ; then in a southerly direction along this Highway to its merging at Clapham with the public road called Highway 6 ; then in a north-westerly direction along Highway 6 to its junction with the public road called Observatory Road ; then in a southerly direction along Observatory Road to its junction with the public road called Fordes Road, then in a south-westerly part of Africa, north-westerly and northerly direction along Fordes Road, Bonnett ’ s Road and Brittons New Road to its junction with Dalkeith Hill ; then in a westerly direction along Dalkeith Hill to its junction with Deighton Road ; then in a generally southerly direction along Deighton Road to its junction with Dayrells Road ; then in a south-westerly, north-westerly and westerly direction along Dayrells Road to its junction at the Garrison with Dalkeith Road ; then in a generally south-westerly direction along Dalkeith Road to its junction with the public road called Highway 7 ; then directly across Highway 7 and continuing in a south-westerly direction along the road leading to Gravesend Beach and directly to the sea.

Henry Venn ( 1725 in Barnes, Surrey, England-1797 ), was an English evangelical minister and one of the founders of the Clapham Sect, a small but highly influential evangelical group within the Anglican Church.

He died at Epsom at the age of 72 and was buried at Clapham Church.

* St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Clapham

Henry Thornton was buried at St Paul's Church, Rectory Grove, Clapham, where a commemorative plaque records the fact, with an additional reference to the family vault nearby.

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Clapham, believed to have been built in the 12th century. The main part of the village is known simply as The Street, a single long dead-end road coming off the A280 and containing the majority of the village's housing.

Work of pre-Conquest date, however, is found in the massive tower of Clapham church, the tower of St. Peter's Church in Bedford town centre, and in a door of St Mary the Virgin in Stevington.

with St. Michael: – Starting from the meeting point of the parishes of St. George, St. Michael, and Christ Church and proceeding in a southerly direction along the plantation track and the boundary between the residential development called Fort George Heights and the Kent House residential development to the junction of the boundary with the public road called Highway R ; then in a westerly direction along Highway R to its junction at Wildey with the Airport to West Coast Highway ; then in a southerly direction along this Highway to its merging at Clapham with the public road called Highway 6 ; then in a north-westerly direction along Highway 6 to its junction with the public road called Observatory Road ; then in a southerly direction along Observatory Road to its junction with the public road called Fordes Road, then in a south-westerly, north-westerly and northerly direction along Fordes Road, Bonnett ’ s Road and Brittons New Road to its junction with Dalkeith Hill ; then in a westerly direction along Dalkeith Hill to its junction with Deighton Road ; then in a generally southerly direction along Deighton Road to its junction with Dayrells Road ; then in a south-westerly, north-westerly and westerly direction along Dayrells Road to its junction at the Garrison with Dalkeith Road ; then in a generally south-westerly direction along Dalkeith Road to its junction with the public road called Highway 7 ; then directly across Highway 7 and continuing in a south-westerly direction along the road leading to Gravesend Beach and directly to the sea.

Evangelicals were also concerned with social reform during this period — in England the Clapham Sect included figures such as William Wilberforce who successfully campaigned for the abolition of slavery.

Marshall was born in Clapham, England, July 26, 1842.

Clapham () is a district in south west London, England, within the London Borough of Lambeth.

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 ".

* 5 April — James F. M. Prinsep of Clapham Rovers becomes England's youngest international player at the age of 17 years and 252 when he makes his debut ( and only appearance ) for England against Scotland.

While in England he married for the second time, to Elizabeth Crisp Clapham, in July 1691.

Bradley was born at Clapham, Surrey, England ( now part of the Greater London area ).

Clapham Common is an triangular area of grassland situated in south London, England.

In his " Opening Address to a Conference at Mont Pelerin " Hayek mentioned " two men with whom I had most fully discussed the plan for this meeting both have not lived to see its realisation ": Henry Simons ( who trained Milton Friedman, a future president of the society, at the University of Chicago ) and Sir John Clapham, a senior official of the Bank of England who from 1940 – 6 was the president of the British Royal Society.

The 21 clubs present at the meeting were: Blackheath ( represented by Burns and Frederick Stokes, the latter becoming the first captain of England ), Richmond, Ravenscourt Park, West Kent, Marlborough Nomads, Wimbledon Hornets, Gipsies, Civil Service, The Law Club, Wellington College, Guy ’ s Hospital, Flamingoes, Clapham Rovers, Harlequin F. C., King's College Hospital, St Paul's, Queen ’ s House, Lausanne, Addison, Mohicans, and Belsize Park.

He was a member of the Clapham Sect, who fought for the abolition of the slave trade in England.

In late 2004, the band headed back to England for a second UK tour, including supporting the Happy Mondays at a sold out show to over 12, 000 people on Clapham Common in London.

Clapham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England.

Tele-snaps ( often known as Telesnaps ) were off-screen photographs of British television broadcasts, taken and sold commercially by John Cura ( born Alberto Giovanni Cura in Clapham, South London, England ; 9 April 1902-21 April 1969 ).

During the last few years of his life Byron was in frail health, and he died at his home in Clapham, London, England, in 1884 at the age of 49.

Clapham is a village in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England.