Nine Elms

Nine Elms is a suburb of London, situated in the far north-eastern corner of the London Borough of Wandsworth between Battersea and Vauxhall. It is primarily an industrial area, dominated by Battersea Power Station, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, railway lines, a major Royal Mail sorting office and the New Covent Garden Market. Nine Elms Lane was named, around 1645, from a row of trees bordering the road. In 1838, at the time of construction of the London and Southampton Railway, the area was described as “a low swammpy district occasionally overflowed by the Thames [whose] osiers beds, pollards and windmille and the river give it a Dutch effect.…” Nine Elms railway station opened on 21 May 1838, as the first London terminus of the...