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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  CLAPHAM PARK LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	WANDSWORTH MetB (Local Government District)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "CLAPHAM PARK":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BEDFORDSHIRE, or Beds	Bedfordshire	Clapham, Cranfield, Milton-Ernest, Odell, and Turvey. The climate is mild and genial, the prevailing winds south-westerly The soil is very various and mixed; and occasions diversity of husbandry. A very thin soil lies on most of the chalk hills; a mixed sand prevails from Woburn to the vicinity of Biggleswade; a rich gravelly loam lies along much of the Ouse and the Ivel; and a clayey soil, often very fertile, prevails throughout the vale of Bedford and the N. About 84,000 acres are in tillage; some small tracts are in market-gardens; about 168,000 acres	Imperial
  CHICHESTER	Sussex	CHICHESTER , a city, a sub-district, a district, a rape, and a diocese in Sussex. The city stands at the	Imperial
  Clapham	Bedfordshire	Clapham .-- par., on river Ouse, in co. and 1½ mile NW. of Bedford, 1982 ac., pop. 608; P.O.; contains C. Park	Bartholomew
  CLAPHAM	Surrey	Clapham Common, an area of about 200 acres, was an almost impassable marsh till about 1760; but is now dried by drains, intersected with carriage-drives, and tastefully adorned with trees and shrubs. Clapham New Park	Imperial
  CLAPHAM	Bedfordshire	CLAPHAM , a parish in the district and county of Bedford; on the river Ouse, and on the Hitchin and Leicester railway, near Oakley r. station, 2¼ miles NNW of Bedford. It has a post office under Bedford. Acres. 1, 982. Real property, £3, 358. Pop., 502. Houses, 129. The property is much subdivided. Clapham Park	Imperial
  KENNINGTON	Surrey	park. The entire place has changed its character from rural to urban; it is now a well built, respectable, airy portion of the metropolis; it contains very numerous streets, running in various directions; and it includes a large aggregate of open spaces, serving for both adornment and ventilation. A chief one of the open spaces is the Park; and another chief one is the Oval, an area of nearly ten acres, formerly disposed as market garden and nursery, but now used as the Surrey cricket ground. The parish comprises 962 acres of land and 7 of waterPop	Imperial
  LEEDS	Yorkshire	park appears to have surrounded it, and is commemorated in the names Park place, Park lane, Parkrow, and Park square. Leeds was called on for its proportion of ship money in 1638; and Leeds, Halifax, and Bradford are characterized by Lord Clarendon, in 1642, as "three very populous and rich towns, depending wholly upon clothiers." The town was seized for the parliamentarians early in 1643; and it repeatedly changed masters during the vicissitudes of the civil war; but it happily never was the scene of much bloodshed. Charles I. is said to have for some time occupied a mansion	Imperial
  London	Essex Kent Middlesex Surrey	parks, which for extent and beauty are unsurpassed by any open spaces belonging to other large cities. The chief are: - In the W., St James' Park (80 ac.), the Green Park (70 ac.), Hyde Park (390 ac.), and Kensington Gardens (360 ac.); in the N., the Regent's Park (470 ac.), containing the gardens of the Zoological Society and the Botanical Society; in the SW., Battersea Park (180 ac.); and in the E., Victoria Park (300 ac.). In the suburbs, at no great distance, are several extensive commons, such as Hampstead Heath, Blackheath, Clapham	Bartholomew
  LONDON	London London	Clapham-road; the Church of England Metropolitan training college, at Highbury-Park; the Home and Colonial training college, for mistresses	Imperial
  LOUGHBOROUGH-PARK	London	LOUGHBOROUGH-PARK , a station on the South London railway; between Clapham and Denmark-Hill.	Imperial

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