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Vauxhall
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Also known as Vauxhall, England, Vauxhall, London

Vauxhall ( , ) is an area of South London, within the London Borough of Lambeth. Named after a medieval manor called Fox Hall, it became well known for the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.

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UK place.official_name
Vauxhall
UK place.static_image_name
Vauxhall - Nine Elms - Battersea - Pimlico at night.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption
River Thames looking upstream from Vauxhall Bridge showing (left) St George Wharf Tower and (centre) Battersea Power Station, and the shorelines, left to right, of Vauxhall, Nine Elms, Battersea and Pimlico
UK place.map_type
Greater London
UK place.population
14,262
UK place.population_ref
(Princes ward, 2011)
UK place.os_grid_reference
TQ305785
UK place.charingX_distance_mi
1.59
UK place.charingX_direction
NNE
UK place.london_borough
Lambeth
UK place.region
London
UK place.country
England
UK place.post_town
LONDON
UK place.postcode_area
SW
UK place.postcode_district
SW8
UK place.dial_code
020
UK place.constituency_westminster
Vauxhall and Camberwell Green

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Population
14262
Image
Vauxhall - Nine Elms - Battersea - Pimlico at night.jpg
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postal code
SW8
OS grid reference
TQ305785
Commons category
Vauxhall, London
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  • Development
  • Demography
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  • Vauxhall Cross
  • Nearest tube stations
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Vauxhall ( , ) is an area of South London, within the London Borough of Lambeth. Named after a medieval manor called Fox Hall, it became well known for the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.

From the Victorian period until the mid-20th century, Vauxhall was a mixed industrial and residential area, of predominantly manual workers' homes – many demolished and replaced by Lambeth Council with social housing after the Second World War – and business premises, including large railway, gas, and water works. These industries contrasted with the mostly residential neighbouring districts of Kennington and Pimlico. As in neighbouring Battersea and Nine Elms, riverside redevelopment has converted most former industrial sites into residential properties and new office space.

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