Battersea (parish)

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Battersea was a civil parish and metropolitan borough in the County of London. In 1965 the borough was abolished and its area combined with parts of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth to form the London Borough of Wandsworth. The borough was administered from Battersea Town Hall on Lavender Hill and the building is now Battersea Arts Centre.

In 1900 the London Government Act 1899 divided the County of London into twenty-eight metropolitan borough]s, and the vestries and district boards were dissolved. The parish became the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea, with the borough council replacing the civil vestry.

The Metropolitan Borough included within its bounds Battersea, Battersea Park, Clapham Junction and parts of Wandsworth Common and Clapham Common.

In 1913 John Archer became mayor of the borough and the first black mayor in the country.