Walking Wandsworth Road: Nine Elms to Clapham Junction

The best of Battersea - a fascinating guided walk along the historic gateway route into Wandsworth, London Borough of Culture 2025. 

If you've ever gazed out from the top deck of the 77 bus on the long Wandsworth Road stretch between Lavender Hill and Vauxhall and wondered what you are passing by, this is the Walk for you! From the riot of skyscapers at Nine Elms, within touching distance of the Houses of Parliament, we follow Wandsworth Road through the low lying lands that were once market gardens, the bread basket of London. As it shadows the course of the 'lost river' Heathwall and rises above key housing estates, homes for its population of railway workers and Irish migrants, we will reflect on the personalities that emerged from this hot-bed of radical politics. A century ago they fanned the flames in a country on the brink of revolution. Throw in inspirational women, film locations, poltergeists and 'the house of carvings' and you have a walk to remember!