Clapham Common
Urban park in Clapham, London, England
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Clapham Common is a large triangular urban park in Clapham, south London, England. Originally common land for the parishes of Battersea and Clapham, it was converted to parkland under the terms of the Metropolitan Commons Act 1878. It is 220 acres (89 hectares) of green space, with three ponds and a Victorian bandstand. It is overlooked by large Georgian and Victorian mansions and nearby Clapham Old Town.
Holy Trinity Clapham, an 18th-century Georgian church overlooking the common, is important in the history of the evangelical Clapham Sect. Half of the common is within the London Borough of Wandsworth, and the other half is within the London Borough of Lambeth.
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