Northcote Road is a shopping street In
Battersea, south London, which stretches over half a mile. It is close to
Clapham Junction
Clapham Junction is an urban locality around Clapham Junction railway station in London, England. Despite its name, it is not located in Clapham, but forms the commercial centre of Battersea.
Clapham Junction was a scene of disturbances during ...
station.
It is the epicentre of the so-called '
Nappy Valley
Nappy Valley is a colloquial epithet applied to pleasant places with high (demographic) reproduction.
It resonates linguistically with Happy Valley such as that in Kenya, noted for its wealthy white population before 1963 independence where mu ...
', named because of the young, affluent and productive demographic and also because the road lies over a culverted stream (the
Falconbrook
The Falconbrook was a stream that rose in Balham and Tooting, draining much of those parishes then the south and west of the larger district of Battersea including Clapham Junction to enter the London reaches of the Thames. Before doing so it b ...
) giving it a low-lying position between the two commons of Wandsworth and Clapham (rising to the west and east respectively).
As well as many cafes and shops, Northcote Road has an historic food market which dates back to the 1860s, as well as the indoor
Northcote Road Antiques Market
Northcote Road Antique Market is a large indoor market located at 155a Northcote Road, Battersea in London, England. It houses over thirty dealers selling antiques, vintage, retro, and collectables.
The shop opened in 1986.http://www.stallholder ...
.
However, as with the vast majority of street markets, Northcote Road is a mere shadow of itself, being much smaller size, and more specialised in what its stalls offer, reflecting the changing demographics of the local area.
References
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Streets in the London Borough of Wandsworth
Battersea