Northcote Road
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Northcote Road is a famous bustling shopping street in Battersea
, south London, which stretches over half a mile. It is close to Clapham Junction station.
It is the epicentre of the so-called 'Nappy Valley
', duly named because of the young, affluent and productive demographic and also because the road lies over a culverted river (the River Falcon) giving it a low-lying position between the two commons of Wandsworth and Clapham (rising to the west and east respectively).
Battersea
Battersea is an area of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is an inner-city district of South London, situated on the south side of the River Thames, 2.9 miles south-west of Charing Cross. Battersea spans from Fairfield in the west to Queenstown in the east...
, south London, which stretches over half a mile. It is close to Clapham Junction station.
It is the epicentre of the so-called 'Nappy Valley
Nappy Valley
Nappy Valley is a term or epithet applied to various places to denote a particularly high local reproductive demographic profile. It references "Happy Valley" in Kenya, an area noted for its wealthy white population before independence and where much of the film "White Mischief" is set.-Battersea,...
', duly named because of the young, affluent and productive demographic and also because the road lies over a culverted river (the River Falcon) giving it a low-lying position between the two commons of Wandsworth and Clapham (rising to the west and east respectively).