Clapham Common

Clapham Common Northside is a road in South West London. One part of it is the A3 which leads to Portsmouth. The 19th-century composer Edvard Grieg stayed in a hotel there while performing in London. The architect Charles Barry, who designed the Houses of Parliament, lived and died in the building which is now known as Trinity Hospice. Samuel Pepys spent the last years of his life in a house on this road. Graham Greene, the novelist, lived at 14 North Side. In 1940, a bomb destroyed Greene's Clapham house, and Greene described similar scenes in his 1943 novel of London during the Blitz, The Ministry of Fear, and later in The End of the Affair.Opposite Northside, on Clapham Common, is Holy Trinity Church, the place of worship that was home to 'The Clapham Sect' the abolitionist group, one of whose members was William Wilberforce. The Clapham Sect was popularised in the 2006 film 'Amazing Grace'.

Royal Trinity Hospice is the oldest hospice in the United Kingdom, founded in 1891 by a member of the Hoare banking family. It is located in Clapham Common, London, England, and provides specialist palliative care. In 2019 Royal Trinity Hospice was rated "Outstanding" by the Care Quality Commission, the highest rating that can be awarded. The hospice provides free palliative and end of life care for patients in a state-of-the-art inpatient unit at their Clapham Common headquarters and in the community, wherever patients may be living. In 2018 Trinity cared for 2,500 patients and in addition provided pre- and post-bereavement support for over 900 carers.Royal Trinity Hospice provides its specialist services free of charge for those who need them across its community of over 750,000 people from central and south-west London (its catchment includes all of the London borough of Wandsworth and parts of the London boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham, Richmond upon Thames, Merton, Westminster and Lambeth. Trinity's current CEO is Emily Carter.

The South London Hospital for Women and Children was a general hospital treating women and children on Clapham Common in London, UK. It was also known as the South London Hospital for Women and the South London Women's Hospital. Founded by Eleanor Davies-Colley and Maud Chadburn in 1912, it always employed an all-woman staff. It closed in 1984.

Clapham South is a station on London Underground's Northern line between Clapham Common and Balham. The station is located at the corner of Balham Hill (A24) and Nightingale Lane, at the southern edge of Clapham Common. It is in both Travelcard Zone 2 and Travelcard Zone 3.

Clapham College was a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys in South London.

Saint Francis Xavier College is a Roman Catholic sixth form college in South London, England. It is located on the borders of Wandsworth and Lambeth close to Clapham South tube station. It offers courses for 16- to 19-year-olds, as well as Adult Education classes. As of 2018 there are about 1,300 enrolled students, the vast majority studying at Level 3.

On the evening of 31 January 2024, 35-year-old Abdul Shokoor Ezedi attacked a 31-year-old woman and her two daughters with a corrosive alkaline substance on a street in Clapham, London. Ezedi fled the area, and was last seen at 23:27 GMT on CCTV on Chelsea Bridge. Nine others were suffered burns in the attack, including members of the public and police who assisted those initially injured. On 9 February, police said that the absence of sightings of Edezi since Chelsea Bridge led them to a hypothesis that he entered the Thames and died, although no body has been found.

The Holy Trinity Church, in Clapham, London, opened in 1776 and was the base for the Clapham Sect, who worshipped there. It is located on Clapham Common and is a Grade II* listed building.

Lambeth Academy is a mixed secondary academy in the London borough of Lambeth. Its sponsor is United Learning.

Clapham () is a district of South London lying mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, but with some areas (most notably Clapham Common) extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth.

The Devas Club for Young People (the Devas Institute until 1970) is a youth club in Battersea, south London, England, which provides sporting, educational and creative opportunities for disadvantaged youth.

Clapham Town is an administrative division of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. The ward contains much of Clapham including part of Clapham Common and Clapham Common Underground station. As of the 2011 census the population was 13,795.The ward is located in the Vauxhall parliamentary constituency.