10 Facts About Wandsworth

Wandsworth Town is a district of south London, within the London Borough of Wandsworth 4.

Wandsworth takes its name from the River Wandle, which enters the Thames at Wandsworth.

Wandsworth appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Wandesorde and Wendelesorde.

At the time of the Domesday Book, the manor of Wandsworth was held partly by William, son of Ansculfy, and partly by St Wandrille's Abbey.

Since at least the early 16th century, Wandsworth has offered accommodation to consecutive waves of immigration, from Protestant Dutch metalworkers fleeing persecution in the 1590s, Huguenots in the 17th century, to recent Eastern European members of the European Union.

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Wandsworth's name evolved each time it merged with or took over neighbouring gas companies, but from 1936 it was the Wandsworth and District Gas Company.

Wandsworth was nationalised in 1949 and became part of the South Eastern Gas Board.

Wandsworth Common is set back from the river, at the top of East Hill, and is adjoined by an area known locally as "the Toast Rack" that has some of the most expensive townhouses in London, as well as the restaurant Chez Bruce, formerly Harveys, where chef Gordon Ramsay learned his trade, and for which co-owner Bruce Poole gained a Michelin star in 1999.

Wandsworth Town is served by Southfields tube station in the Southfields area of the Town.

All Saints' is the original parish church of Wandsworth, dating back to the 13th century, although the present building is mostly of the 18th century.