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clapham

n. 1 An area of London, mostly in Lambeth. 2 Any of several other places in England. 3 (surname A=An English habitational from=Old English dot=) derived from these places.

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Clapham

Clapham is a district of south-west London within the London Borough of Lambeth.

Clapham (disambiguation)

Clapham may refer to:

Clapham (UK Parliament constituency)

Clapham was a borough constituency in South London which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1885 general election and abolished for the February 1974 general election.

Clapham (surname)

Clapham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Arthur Roy Clapham (1904–1990), British botanist
  • Jamie Clapham (born 1975), English soccer player
  • Sir John Clapham (1873–1946), British academic economist
  • John Greaves Clapham (c. 1796 – 1854 or later), Canadian business man and politician
  • Mark Clapham (born 1976), British writer
  • Michael Clapham (born 1943), UK politician, Labour Member of Parliament
  • Victor J. Clapham (South African Scout Association) Scouting notable, awardee of the Bronze Wolf in 1976

Usage examples of "clapham".

She sat in beside me and I did all the automatic things like switching on the lights and letting off the handbrake, and I drove all the way to Clapham without consciously seeing the road.

While crossing Clapham Common in a carriage, he somehow fell from his seat, grew entangled in the reins, and was dragged at a gallop over rough ground by the panicked horses.

Buckland ended up by losing his mind and finished his days a gibbering wreck in a lunatic asylum in Clapham, not far from where Mantell had suffered his crippling accident.

Miss Selina Fish, daughter of Barnabas Fish, Esquire, of Clapham, and merchant of the City of London.

Fancy taking Madge to Clapham in a nice white dress - it should be white, thought Selina - and presenting her as a saved lamb!

The real home which he remembered was a house looking upon Clapham Common.

We rented a guarded lockup in Clapham and paid the kids every time they brought in a substantial load of Bone.

Then there was his pilot project for installing solid-state traffic lights in Clapham, a scheme so aptly named that it had isolated that suburb from the rest of London for almost a week.

He considers it frivolous since, whatever the mathematicians might say, no ordinary person--the fabled man on the Clapham omnibus, for instance--will consider that it starts in other than 1900.

From there he would twist across into Clapham Manor Street, wind a little through backstreets to join Silverthorne Road, a steep sine-wave of minor industrial estates and peculiarly suburban houses tucked between Battersea and Clapham, a conduit feeding directly into Queenstown Road, across Chelsea Bridge.

But within a matter of hours his Clapham flat had been turned over, and he discovered and disposed of a large slab of party powder with moments to spare before the cops turned up looking for it.

According to the postmarks, the alleged locations of the Ripper at various times, or where he claimed to be going, include Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Dublin, Belfast, Limerick, Edinburgh, Plymouth, Leicester, Bristol, Clapham, Woolwich, Nottingham.

According to the postmarks, the alleged locations of the Ripper at various times, or where he claimed to be going, include Birmingham, Liv­erpool, Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Dublin, Belfast, Limerick, Edin­burgh, Plymouth, Leicester, Bristol, Clapham, Woolwich, Nottingham.

Mrs Clapham was not a minor, and the notice of his engagement to her, coupled with a disclosure to Badbury of her circumstances, would be enough to fob off his creditors.

I left no quarter unremembered, taking a train of eight vehicles, now drawn by three motors, with which I visited West Ham and Kew, Finchley and Clapham, Dalston and Marylebone.