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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Original Publisher: Ashfield Subjects: Battersea (London, England) Battersea (London, England) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE VILLAGE OF BATTEESEA lies on the south side of the Thames opposite Chelsea, to which it has some historical relationship on account of its having been the seat of our Porcelain manufacture and of Saxon origin. It is situated about four miles South West , f St. Paul's Cathedral. Battersea is a polling place for the Mid-divisions of the County in the Wandsworth Division of the West Brixton Hundred, Wandsworth Union and County Court District, Surrey Arch-Deaconry, and late Winchester, but now Eochester Diocese ; it is also within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court, Metropolitan Board of Works, Metropolitan Police, and Wandsworth Police Court. The Parish is divided into four Wards. Penge f lies in Croydon district detached from the maintody seven miles distant. The entire parish comprehends an area of 3183 acres. Acres of the main body, 2177 of land 166 of water. -- Wilson's Gazeteer of England and Wales. In 1792, there were two places of worship, viz., the Parish Church and the Old Baptist Meeting House in York Eoad; the number of houses within the parish at that period was 380. The following tabular statement wiU give but an inadequate conception of the growth of the parish since then: -- An alteration has been made in the Diocesan arrangement. Since 1877, Battersea together with other parishes in East and Mid-Surrey has been added to the See of Rochester, and therefore is undej the jurisdiction of the Bishop of that Diocese. The See of Rochester was founded A. D. 604. St. Augustin or Austin ...Read More