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Wandsworth Town ( ) is a zone of south London, within the London Borough of Wandsworth 4.2 miles ( 6.8 kilometer ) southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. [ 2 ]
toponymy [edit ]
Wandsworth takes its name from the River Wandle, which enters the Thames at Wandsworth. Wandsworth appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Wandesorde and Wendelesorde. This means ‘enclosure of ( a man named ) Waendel ‘, whose appoint is besides lent to the River Wandle. [ 3 ] To distinguish it from the London Borough of Wandsworth, and historically from the Wandsworth District of the Metropolis and the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth, which all covered larger areas, it is besides known as Wandsworth Town .
history [edit ]
Middle Mill, Wandsworth by George Vincent (1796–1839), Government Art Collection by George Vincent ( 1796–1839 ), Government Art Collection At the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ), the manor of Wandsworth was held partially by William, son of Ansculfy, and partially by St Wandrille ‘s Abbey. Its Domesday assets were 12 hides, with 5+1⁄2 ploughs and 22 acres ( 89,000 m2 ) of hayfield. It rendered £9. [ 4 ] Since at least the early sixteenth hundred, Wandsworth has offered accommodation to back-to-back waves of immigration, from Protestant Dutch metalworkers fleeing persecution in the 1590s, Huguenots in the seventeenth hundred, to holocene easterly european members of the European Union. [ 5 ]
A map showing the wards of Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916. Between Wandsworth town center and the river is the locate of Young & Co ‘s Ram Brewery. Shire horse -drawn brewery drays were still used to deliver beer to local public house. Whilst brewing by Young ‘s stopped in September 2006 when Young & Co merged its operations with Charles Wells of Bedford, brew does continue on the locate by a maestro brewer albeit in small amounts. A plan application to redevelop the site for residential and shopping/leisure “ blend use ” was submitted in 2012. [ 6 ] In 2019 it was announced that Sambrook ‘s Brewery will continue to brew beer on the locate moving from their brewhouse on York Road in 2020 with John Hatch ( former maestro brewer of Youngs Brewery ) taking an active function in tours. [ 7 ] Wandsworth accelerator establish was built in 1834 against the River Thames near Wandsworth Bridge. [ 8 ] The undertaking became the Wandsworth and Putney Gaslight and Coke Company in 1854 and was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1856. [ 8 ] Coal for making ember flatulence was brought by sea from North East England and unloaded on the Thames beside the gasworks. [ 8 ] The firm grew by a series of mergers and takeovers so that by 1936 it served a considerable area of southwest London. [ 8 ] The party ‘s name evolved each time it merged with or took over neighbor natural gas companies, but from 1936 it was the Wandsworth and District Gas Company. [ 8 ] The caller was nationalised in 1949 and became part of the South Eastern Gas Board. [ 8 ] Wandsworth world power station was built on The Causeway and supplied electricity to the district of Wandsworth from 1897 to 1964. [ 9 ] It was owned and operated by the County of London Electric Supply Company Limited until the nationalization of the british electricity provision industry in 1948. The power post was decommissioned in 1964. [ 10 ] There is an operational 132 kilovolt national grid substation to the east of the River Wandle .
geography [edit ]
The former wharf area of the river-front is now lined with new apartment blocks, with respective bars and restaurants. celebrated pubs include the Ship Inn and the Waterfront, on the western and easterly side of ( the southerly bridgehead of ) Wandsworth Bridge respectively .
church Row, 1–6, Wandsworth Plain, London SW18 Wandsworth Common is set back from the river, at the crown of East Hill, and is adjoined by an area known locally as “ the Toast Rack ” that has some of the most expensive townhouses in London, [ 5 ] adenine well as the restaurant Chez Bruce, once Harveys, where chef Gordon Ramsay learned his barter, and for which co-owner Bruce Poole gained a Michelin star in 1999. besides in the area is the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, which now contains flats, a field school and a restaurant.
The Tonsleys/Old York Road is a residential area of old Wandsworth close to the river and township center, therefore called because many of the street names have the give voice “ Tonsley ” included. It has a greenwich village tactile property with the Old York Road ‘s cafe and shops at its center. The area has three luminary pubs : the Royal Standard, the East Hill and the Alma. Brady ‘s Fish Restaurant serves traditional fish and chips. The area was recently used as the location for the BBC TV serial Outnumbered. East Hill is an area of big priggish houses bordered by the west side of Wandsworth Common. Wandsworth High Street is dominated by the reform Southside patronize centre, cinema and restaurant building complex ( once called the Arndale Centre ). Behind the shop center, and following the River Wandle upriver towards Earlsfield and far south to Wimbledon, is King George ‘s Park. Wandsworth Museum previously occupied the erstwhile victorian library in West Hill having been moved there in 2007. The museum closed in March 2015. [ 11 ] The De Morgan Centre is presently situated in Wandsworth Museum and houses a collection of victorian artwork. A green brass to commemorate aviation pioneer Alliott Verdon Roe was unveiled by Wandsworth Council and members of the Verdon-Roe family beside the A3 close to Wandsworth Fire Station on the web site of Roe ‘s beginning workshop in the stables of his brother ‘s sign of the zodiac at 47 West Hill. The underpass below the Wandsworth Bridge carousel was the localization for the scene in Stanley Kubrick ‘s A Clockwork Orange in which a slog is attacked. [ 12 ] There are respective schools in Wandsworth including Shaftesbury Park Primary School. Wandsworth Town Library is on Garratt Lane. [ 13 ] The library opened in 2009 and is located in the erstwhile motor hotel house, a list construction. [ 14 ]
transportation [edit ]
The nearest railway stations are Wandsworth Town ; Wandsworth Common ( one stop from Clapham Junction, and 12 minutes ‘ train ride from London Victoria ) ; and Earlsfield, ( one stop from Clapham Junction, and 12 minutes ‘ gearing ride from London Waterloo ). Wandsworth Town is besides served by Southfields metro station in the Southfields area of the Town .
Churches [edit ]
All Saints ‘ is the original parish church of Wandsworth, dating back to the thirteenth hundred, although the present build is by and large of the eighteenth century. [ 15 ] St Anne ‘s and Holy Trinity churches were built in the nineteenth hundred to accommodate a growing population .
Wandsworth Prison [edit ]
Built in 1851, Wandsworth Prison is a class B men ‘s prison. It is the largest prison in London and one of the largest in Europe, [ 16 ] with a similar capacity to Liverpool Prison .
See besides [edit ]
References [edit ]
foster reading [edit ]
- James Thorne (1876), “Wandsworth”, Handbook to the Environs of London, London: John Murray, hdl:2027/mdp.39015063815677
Wandsworth travel guide from Wikivoyage