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CLAPHAM

Volume 6 · 62 words · 1860 Edition

a parish in Surrey, 4 miles S.W. from St Paul's, and one of the most favourite of the suburban districts around London. It has several churches and chapels; a grammar and other schools, orphan asylum, literary institute, savings-bank, &c. The common, extending over 200 acres, is planted with trees and surrounded by handsome houses, and ornamental wood. Pop. of parish (1851) 16,290.