Carriage Drive West is a road in the SW11 postcode area
Anhalt Road, SW11 Anhalt Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Antiquarius, SW3 Antiquarius is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Bray Place, SW3 Bray Place is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Bridge Lane, SW11 Bridge Lane is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Burns Road, SW11 Burns Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Cabul Road, SW11 Cabul Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Cadogan Pier, SW3 Cadogan Pier is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Cheyne Court, SW3 Cheyne Court is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Cheyne Place, SW3 Cheyne Place is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Cheyne Row, SW3 Cheyne Row is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Cheyne Walk, SW3 Cheyne Walk is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Dilke Street, SW3 Dilke Street is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Eland Road, SW11 Eland Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Este Road, SW11 Este Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Ethelburga Street, SW11 Ethelburga Street was named after Saint Æthelburh (Ethelburga), founder and first Abbess of Barking. Falcon Lane, SW11 Falcon Lane is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Falcon Road, SW11 Falcon Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Flood Street, SW3 Flood Street commemorates Luke Thomas Flood (d.1860) a major Chelsea land owner and a benefactor of the poor. Flood Walk, SW3 Flood Walk is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Glebe Place, SW3 Glebe Place is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Home Road, SW11 Home Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Juer Street, SW11 Juer Street is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Kersley Mews, SW11 Kersley Mews is a rare survival of a local mews and built to serve the residents of Foxmore Street and Kersley Street. Kings Road, SW3 Kings Road is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Lewis Estate, SW3 Lewis Estate is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Park South, SW11 Park South is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Petworth Street, SW11 Petworth Street was laid out in the late nineteenth century linking two bridge approaches - Albert Bridge Road and Battersea Bridge Road. Phene Street, SW3 Phene Street is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Poyntz Road, SW11 Poyntz Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Radnor Walk, SW3 Radnor Walk is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Rosenau Road, SW11 Rosenau Road was named after Schloss Rosenau, the birthplace and boyhood home of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became the consort of Queen Victoria. Sabine Road, SW11 Sabine Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Smith Street, SW3 Smith Street is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Sugden Road, SW11 Sugden Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Surrey Lane, SW11 Surrey Lane is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. The Gateways, SW3 The Gateways is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Tite Street, SW3 Tite Street is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area. Tryon Street, SW3 Tryon Street is one of the streets of London in the SW3 postal area.
Battersea Park station was named after the nearby park.Battersea Park is a 200 acre green space situated on the south bank of the River Thames opposite Chelsea.
Battersea Park station named after the park, and at first called York Road, opened in 1867.
The first station to carry the name
Battersea Park had been opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway as Battersea in 1860 and was located at the southern end of what is now Grosvenor Bridge.
It was named
Battersea Park on 1 July 1862 but was sometimes called
Battersea Park and Steamboat Pier. It closed on 1 November 1870 concurrently with the opening of Grosvenor Road station situated at the north end of Grosvenor Bridge.
The London Brighton and South Coast Railway opened a high-level line between Pouparts Junction and Battersea Pier Junction on 1 May 1867 as a means of reducing congestion at Stewarts Lane.
York Road (Battersea) station opened at this time. The station was renamed
Battersea Park and York Road 1 January 1877 and
Battersea Park on 1 June 1885.
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