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Battersea is a largely residential inner-city district of south London in the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It has Battersea Park, one of southwest London's main parks and is on the south side of the River Thames, 2.9 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Charing Cross.
Noted for the long-awaited bringing of the London Underground in the 21st century, two main railway lines cross here at what was the country's busiest station. In all directions along these lines are several of the borough's council estates which replaced some of the severely overcrowded housing serving its former Power Station, its locomotive, carriage and heavy industrial works, with interpretations and variants ranging from brutalist to spacious garden courtyards. Elsewhere in Battersea are a growing proportion of private architecturally-acclaimed riverside, parkside and typical London homes. In 2001, Battersea had a population of 75,651 people. Landmarks include New Covent Garden Market and the Royal Academy of Dance. Wandsworth Common and Clapham Common border parts of this large district, which traditionally also includes Nine Elms. Railway stations in Battersea are in fare zone 2.
Battersea is a constituency in the London Borough of Wandsworth represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Jane Ellison of the Conservative Party.
Battersea is an EP by the Belgian band Hooverphonic. It was released in 1998. The lead track was taken from the band's album Blue Wonder Power Milk. The remixed tracks, however, were from the band's previous effort, A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular (1996).
Battersea is a historic plantation house in Prairieville, Alabama. The house was built from 1820-45 by the Vaughan family from Petersburg, Virginia and served as an early stagecoach stop. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district on July 7, 1994 as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.
Battersea is a district of the city of London. It may also refer to:
- Battersea (UK Parliament constituency)
- Metropolitan Borough of Battersea, a civil parish and borough of the County of London
- Battersea Power Station, a decommissioned power generation station in London
- Battersea, Ontario, Canada, a community
- Battersea (Prairieville, Alabama), a plantation house on the National Register of Historic Places
- Battersea (Petersburg, Virginia), a historic house
- Battersea (EP), by the Belgian band Hooverphonic
Battersea is a historic home located at Petersburg, Virginia. It was built about 1768, for Colonel John Banister (1734-1788), the first mayor of Petersburg and a signer of the Articles of Confederation. It is a symmetrical five-part Palladian house consisting of a two-story central block topped by a pyramidal roof, one-story wings that act as hyphens, and 1 1/2-story end pavilions. Also on the property are the contributing greenhouse and a kitchen, which may have additionally served as a laundry and servants’ quarter. The property also includes the contributing sites of an 18th-century formal garden and a stable.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
Usage examples of "battersea".
Borribles saw the large car drive away in the moonlight, passing along the shining tarmac which led between the trees to the limits of Battersea Park.
When they reached the sleeping streets they kept to the dark shadows between the lamp-posts and marched rapidly in the direction of Battersea High Street.
If the Rumbles were coming all the way down from Rumbledom to colonise the Park, what price Battersea High Street?
When a house is already occupied they will often use the cellar and they camp in schools at night too because they are left empty and unused, like the schools in Battersea High Street.
Now, in my opinion, this can only be a preparation for a take-over of Battersea, an erosion of our freedom, a new and subtle kind of slavery and a clipping of ears.
Likewise, from among the ranks of the Battersea nameless, we shall choose one who shows the greatest promise.
Who, people wondered, would be chosen as the Battersea representative on the expedition?
Great Rumble Hunt will destroy that confidence, and we, the Borribles of Battersea, will start that Rumble Hunt.
Spiff and the prisoner and the hall gradually emptied as the various groups of Borribles made their way back to their own houses, cellars and sheds, to discuss the morning meeting and to wonder who would be chosen as the Battersea champion to go with the others.
Crucible Works, some others under the railway arches at Battersea Park Station, but I think the brightest of the lot, out of the whole Borough, is one who lives up on Lavender Hill, bright as a button and smart as paint.
By chance it was the one he had recommended to Spiff, the Battersea Borrible from the Lavender Hill nick.
Knocker forced his team to undertake many a journey into Battersea Park and he taught them how to listen for the sound underneath the ground that told them that a Rumble or a mole or a rat was down there.
Very soon now the bell would ring and Battersea Park would close for the night.
Keeper 347 has been marooned on a desert island in the middle of Battersea Park while rescuing a dog.
Only when the sky had paled and dawn climbed over the blocks of flats along Battersea Park Road did Napoleon direct them to the lake-side.