Wandsworth
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Template:Infobox London place Wandsworth is a town by the River Thames in south-west London. It is at the centre of the London Borough of Wandsworth, made up of Balham, Battersea, Clapham Junction, Earlsfield, Nine Elms, Putney, Roehampton, Southfields, and Tooting. It is a diverse town, containing some light industry and warehouse sites, and the Southside Shopping Centre. The Young's Brewery site is thought to be the oldest site in the UK on which beer has been continuously brewed - thought to be since 1581. Former industrial sites on the riverside have been converted into luxury riverside housing. There is an area of quiet residential terraced housing (known as The Tonsleys) behind Old York Road - the former centre of old Wandsworth. It has some major transport routes running through it, which dissect the area and are usually heavily congested.
Set back from the river, up the top of East Hill can be found Wandsworth Common, which is in fact several commons carved up by roads and railway lines, but which extends southwards for a couple of miles.
Nearby is Wandsworth prison, which is the largest prison in the London area.
Wandsworth gets its name from the River Wandle, which enters the Thames at Wandsworth.
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Transport
Nearest railway stations:
- Wandsworth Common train station, (one stop from Clapham Junction, and 12 minutes' train ride from Victoria.)