Battersea Rise - Contents

Battersea Rise at the Brink of the Great War - From the 1914 Post Office Directory

Battersea Rise at the end of the 19th century - From the 1896 Kelly's Directory

Battersea Rise House

Photo Gallery - Old Photos of Battersea Rise and Nearby

Photo Gallery - Recent Photos of Battersea Rise

Books about Battersea Rise

Battersea Park, Clapham Common & Wandsworth Common

Links to Battersea

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A View of the Villa Garden and Meadow Land at Battersea Rise, Surry. The freehold estate of the late John Sewell esq which will be sold by auction by Mr Smith at Garraway's Coffee House on Wednesday the 23rd March 1803
This appears to have been cut out of the "European Magazine", I have not yet traced the exact location of the villa. The "European Magazine and London Review" was a monthly published 1782-1806 and printed, prior to 1803, by John Sewell, bookseller, at No. 32 Cornhill. I've seen the building refered to as Sewell's Folly.

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Battersea Rise was originally the name of an area, it is first recorded in 1656 as the "Ryse". Travelling on the railway from Clapham Junction towards Waterloo the "rise" or high ground south of the Thames flood plain can clearly be seen with the tower of St. Barnabas' Church visible over the brow.

A mansion called "Battersea Rise House" stood on what is now Clapham Common West Side opposite St. Barnabas' Church near Maddison Road.

The road now known as Battersea Rise is the old coaching road between London Bridge and Portsmouth, later known as the A3. It also forms part of London's South Circular Road, the main London orbital road before the M25 Motorway. Hence the heavy traffic in all the modern photographs. In former times it, and its continuation Clapham Common North Side, seems to have been known as Canterbury Road or Canterbury Way, ref Our Lady of Batersey by JG Taylor, although the evidence for this seems rather slim.

Battersea Rise has for many years been served by the 37 bus route. More recently the 35 route has been extended to serve the Rise. A large photo of a 37 bus in Battersea Rise is on the "Buses at Work" website

From "The Buildings of Clapham" by The Clapham Society, 2000 (Recommended at £11.95) the buildings of Battersea Rise date from:

"The Buildings of Clapham" gives details Architect/Builder where known and an architectural description

Miscellanea:

In the early 1900s the Esoteric Society met at "the Restaurant", 35 Battersea Rise.

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