Shellgate Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area.
Aliwal Road, SW11 Aliwal Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Belleville Road, SW11 Belleville Road runs from Bollingbroke Grove, across Northcote Road, to Webb’s Road. Berber Road, SW11 Berber Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Boutflower Road, SW11 Henry Boutflower Verdon was the first vicar-designate of St Mark’s Church, past which the road runs. Chatto Road, SW11 Chatto Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Comyn Road, SW11 Comyn Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Hafer Road, SW11 Hafer Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Mysore Road, SW11 Mysore Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Northcote Road, SW11 Northcote Road is a shopping street between Clapham and Battersea, which stretches over half a mile. Webbs Road, SW11 Webbs Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Wisley Road, SW11 Wisley Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area.
Earlsfield gets its name from a long-demolished 1860s mansion called 'Earlsfield' just south of Allfarthing Lane.In the 1860s, the whole area was an uninhabited stretch of open country, apart from the hamlet of Garratt to the south, famous in the eighteenth century for the bizarre political burlesque of the Election of the Mayor of Garratt which took place near the Leather Bottle.
Earlsfield finally started growing in the 1880s. The railway came in 1884, and in 1885 a vast workhouse was established on Swaffield Road. By 1900 developers had covered practically the whole area north of the station with terraced housing. In the years just after the First World War, Wandsworth Borough Council created the Magdalen Park Estate between Swaby Road and Openview.
Nowadays, Earlsfield is a commuter suburb with little industry.
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