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- Balham - Rounded enclosure.
- Barnes - Place where barley was grown.
- Battersea - In Domesday of 1086, it was listed as Beaduric's island.
- Belmont - Beautiful hill.
- Brixton - In Domesday, it was Beorhtsige's stone and no habitable settlement was mentioned. The name has only returned to common usage in relatively recent times.
- Clapham - It has been suggested that the name means "home by or on a hill", but the absence of any such hill makes it doubtful. A more likely suggestion is ham (home) made from (or faced with) clappers (small flat stones - often used as strikers in bells). Hence ringing a bell very rapidly (as a possible emergency warning) could be called "going like the clappers".
- Lambeth - From 1088 it was the place where the boats were berthed while collecting lambs from nearby farms.
- Fulham - Fulla's riverside land.
- Kennington - Cena's farm.
- Malden - hill with a cross.
- Merton - farm by a pool.
- Mitcham - large village.
- Morden - hill in marshland.
- Newington - new farm.
- Putney - Putta's landing place.
- Roehampton - home farm where the rooks gather.
- Stockwell - spring by a tree stump.
- Streatham - homestead on a Roman street.
- Tooting - Tota's people.
- Vauxhall - Sloping ground belonging to the Falkes family.
- Wandsworth - Waendel's enclosure.
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