Battersea (recorded in the Domesday Book as Patricsey) is an area of south London on the south bank of the River Thames. It was a market gardening area in Surrey, renowned for the cultivation of medicinal herbs which London apothecaries went to cut, until the 19th-century railway and industrial developments when it developed into a municipal borough of London. In 1905 Battersea was described as having a fine public park extending over 185 acres. The district is associated with the names of Pope and Bolingbroke, and with the Wellington-Winchilsea duel. Research Battersea
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