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The
Clapham Society -
Aims to improve the
quality of local life in Clapham and strengthen its identity
and sense of community >> Friends of Clapham Common - the Friends of Clapham Common has been working on behalf of Clapham's residents to improve its maintenance and enhance its facilities >> Clapham Film Discussion Group - meet every other Monday for the six to seven o'clock showing at the Clapham Picturehouse and discuss it afterwards in the bar >> The Wandsworth Society - a voluntary group concerned with the quality of landscape, transport & planning in and around Wandsworth Town & Wandsworth Common >> Battersea Contemporary Art Fair - the largest artists' art fair in the UK, involving 150 artists. >> Battersea Dogs and Cats Home - their cats ate 22,592 tins and 29,344 packs of dried cat food in 2006 >> Clapham Park Project - a new deal for communities initiative >> Clapham Model Yacht Club - the only London club south of the Thames, based at the Long Pond on Clapham Common >> Clapham Farmer's Market - Sundays between 10am and 2pm at Bonneville Primary School, Bonneville Gardens, Clapham SW4 >> Clapham NCT - offers information and support in pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood to all parents to give them the opportunity to make informed decisions >> Ladder To The Moon - a small registered Charity, pioneering new ways of creating theatre in healthcare environments, and with healthcare providers. >> Battersea Writer's Circle - meets on the first Wednesday of each month at 7.30 in the Family Room at the Battersea Arts Centre >> Wandsworth Cycling Campaign - for the benefit of everyone who cycles or might cycle in and through the borough of Wandsworth.
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Love To Cook
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CLAPHAM HISTORY |
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THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN LONDON |
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Clapham began as a Saxon village. Its
name was originally clopp ham, which meant the village (ham) by the
short hill (clopp). In the Domesday Book Clapham was called Clopeham. Clapham's first suburban residents were attracted to the area by its easy access to London by stage coach (started in 1690), the clean air and water and, later, by the momentum brought to development by the enclosure of the common in the 1770s. Clapham's earliest settlers arrived to escape London's fire and pestilence of the 1660s and the village was given prestige by the residence of Samuel Pepys, diarist and naval administrator, from 1700 until his death three years later. Clapham Junction gets its name from the simple fact that it is close to the joining point of a number of major rail lines -- although the name is not shared by any junction near the station. The names of the nearby rail junctions are Falcon Junctio, Ludgate GW Junction, Latchmere Junction, West London Junction and Pouparts Junction. |
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The London American Embassy is moving from it's 200 year old home in Grosvenor Square (and the home of John Adams, the 2nd US President) to a site between Battersea and Vauxhall - allowing greater security measures.
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