All About Battersea, BY HENRY S. SIMMONDS. [Illustration: S. MARY'S, built according to Act of Parliament, 14. Geo. III. Opened Nov. 17, 1777. About 1823 an Entrance Portico of the Doric Order was added.] London: ASHFIELD, PRINTER, BRIDGE ROAD WEST, BATTERSEA. 1882. This small volume IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED (BY PERMISSION) TO THE REV. JOHN ERSKINE CLARKE, M.A., _Honorary Canon of Winchester, Vicar of Battersea;_ AND TO THE INHABITANTS IN GENERAL. INDEX. PAGE. INTRODUCTION. Nine Elms Lane.--The King's Champion. 3 Thorne's Brewery.--What Battersea has been called. 4 London and South Western Railway Company's Goods Station and Locomotive Works. 4-7 Mill-Pond Bridge.--New Road. 8 A Royal Sturgeon caught in the wheel of the Mill at Mill-Pond Bridge. 9 Wallace's Vitriol Works. 10 Sleaford Street.--Coal. 11 Street Lighting. 12-13 London Gas-Light Company's Works and Vauxhall Gardens. 14-23 On a recently-exposed Section at Battersea. 23-24 Phillips' Fire Annihilating Machine Factory Destroyed.--Brayne's Pottery.--The Old Lime Kilns.--Laver's Cement & Whiting Works. 25 The Southwark and Vauxhall Water Works. 26 Water Carriers and Water Companies. 27-29 The Village of Battersea.--Growth of the Parish. 30-31 Boundaries.--A Legal Contest between Battersea and Clapham Parishes.--Clapham Common. 32-33 Lavender Hill.--The Seat of William Wilberforce.--Eminent Supporters of the Anti-Slavery Movement.--Frances Elizabeth Leveson Gower.--Mr. Thornton.--Philip Cazenove.--Charles Curling, Lady George Pollock, and others. 34-36 Battersea Market Gardens and Gardeners. 36-37 Stages set out for Battersea from the City.--Annual Fair.--Inhabitants supplied with Water from Springs.--The Manor of Battersea before the Conquest. 38 Battersea and its association with the St. Johns. 39 Henry St. John Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. 40-42 A Horizontal Air Mill. 43 St. Mary's Church. 44-46 The Indenture. 47-48 Epitaphs and Sepulchral Monuments. 49-51