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Location of Clapham South station[edit]

This is probably excessive pedantry, but this station is listed as being in Clapham, but I believe that this is inaccurate. The station is in the Borough of Wandsworth, of which none of Clapham falls in. This being said, I'm not actually sure whether Clapham South station is in Battersea or Balham. It's on the corner between the three locations, but I think from the outline map here (http://www.lovebattersea.org.uk/batterseaonthemap-1), the indication is that it is in Battersea. While I realise that the above is a historic map that outlines the former Borough of Battersea, what was within those boarders is still Battersea, as a location. Not sure whether anyone else can weigh in on this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beese71 (talk • contribs) 17:19, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't worry too much about which borough or which constituency it's in now as both of these territorial demarcations will often have a name derived from one part of the area encompassed that is irrelevant to other parts. The station is right next to Clapham Common. If you look at this 1872 map or this 1890s map it is quite clear that the area of Clapham included an area south of the station. On the maps the labels of "CLAPHAM (detached)" on one and "Clapham (det.)" on the other indicate part of the parish of Clapham was separated from the rest by an intervening part of a second parish.

Before the County of London and its Metropolitan Boroughs were abolished to form Greater London, the station was close to the corner of the boundary of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and the much larger Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth which included Clapham. The boundary ran down the centre of Nightingale Avenue with Battersea to the north and Wandsworth to the south, north-east and east (see the ·−·−·−·−· line on this post war map). In Wandsworth it was at the intersection of the Wards of Clapham South, Clapham North and Balham. Being on the south-west corner of the junction, it was probably on the extreme northern edge of Balham Ward rather than Clapham South Ward across the junction. When the London Boroughs were created the old Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth was chopped in two with the Clapham part going to London Borough of Lambeth and rest of the borough joining with Battersea to form the new London Borough of Wandsworth.--DavidCane (talk) 21:59, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, indeed. The post-war map more clearly illustrates the dividing lines, and as such the station would have fallen outside of Battersea, but agreed that it would look to be in Balham Ward, which would align with the station being in Wandsworth Borough now, rather than Lambeth. Agreed that it's probably not something worth losing sleep over. (talk)Beese71 15:14, 29 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]