Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Battersea and Clapham

Battersea and Clapham, parl. bor., Surrey, consisting of the township of Battersea and the par. of Clapham, 3307 ac., pop. 143,642; it returns 2 members to Parliament -- 2 divisions, viz., Battersea (pop. 73,181) and Clapham (pop. 70,461), 1 member for each division; it was made a parl. bor. in 1885.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parliamentary borough"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Surrey AncC
Place: Battersea

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