Editing Clapham (section)

===Local government===
[[File:Wandsworth Met. B Ward Map 1916.svg|thumb|A map showing the Clapham wards of Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916.]]
Clapham was an [[ancient parish]] in the county of Surrey.<ref name=vh>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43028 |title=Parishes: Clapham |editor=H.E. Malden  |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1912 |work=A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4 |access-date=4 November 2014 }}</ref> For [[poor law]] purposes the parish became part of the Wandsworth and Clapham Union in 1836.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10164229|title=Clapham Holy Trinity AP/CP through time – Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit|work=visionofbritain.org.uk}}</ref> The parish was added to the [[General Register Office|Registrar General]] London Metropolis area in 1844 and consequently it came within the area of responsibility of the [[Metropolitan Board of Works]] in 1855. The population of 16,290 in 1851 was considered too small for the Clapham vestry to be a viable sanitary authority and the parish was grouped into the [[Wandsworth District (Metropolis)|Wandsworth District]], electing 18 members to the Wandsworth District Board of Works.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1855/120/pdfs/ukpga_18550120_en.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217231350/http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1855/120/pdfs/ukpga_18550120_en.pdf |archive-date=17 December 2010 |url-status=live |title=Victoriae Reginae |website=Legislation.gov.uk |access-date=24 June 2017}}</ref> In 1889 the parish was transferred to the [[County of London]] and in 1900 it became part of the new [[Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth]]. It was abolished as a civil parish in 1904, becoming part of the single Wandsworth Borough parish for poor law. The former Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth was divided in 1965 and the area of the historic parish of Clapham was transferred to the [[London Borough of Lambeth]], along with [[Streatham]].<ref name=vh/> Clapham [[Clapham (UK Parliament constituency)|gave its name to a Parliamentary constituency]] between 1885 and 1974. Between 1974 and 2024 Clapham was divided between the constituencies of [[Streatham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)|Streatham]] and [[Vauxhall_(UK_Parliament_constituency)|Vauxhall]]. From the [[2024_United_Kingdom_general_election|2024 General Election]] Clapham's wards are reunited in the new constituency of [[Clapham_and_Brixton_Hill_(UK_Parliament_constituency)|Clapham & Brixton]].