Balham
Balham is an area in south-west London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, with small parts extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Lambeth.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Balham station and Chestnut Grove Academy.
Balham station
Metro station
Balham is an interchange station located in central Balham in the London Borough of Wandsworth, south west London for London Underground and National Rail services.
Chestnut Grove Academy
School
Chestnut Grove Academy is an 11–19 mixed partially selective secondary school with academy and Visual Arts College status in Balham, London, England. In January 2019, Chestnut Grove was assessed in an OFSTED inspection report as good, whilst the Sixth Form was assessed as outstanding.
Wandsworth Common railway station
Railway station
Photo: Noel Foster, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wandsworth Common railway station is in the London Borough of Wandsworth in south London. It is 4 miles 5 chains down the line from London Victoria. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southern, and it is in London fare zone 3.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clapham Park and Clapham.
Clapham Park
Neighborhood
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clapham Park is an area in the Borough of Lambeth in London, to the south of central Clapham and west of Brixton.
Clapham
Suburb
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clapham is a district in south west London, England, lying mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, but with some areas extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth.
Streatham
Suburb
Photo: Stephen Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Streatham is a district in south London in England that lies five miles south of Charing Cross. It falls mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, with some parts extending westward into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth.
Balham
- Type: Suburb with 14,800 residents
- Description: area in the London boroughs of Wandsworth and Lambeth, England
- Categories: area of London and locality
- Location: Wandsworth, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.44475° or 51° 26′ 41″ northLongitude
-0.15129° or 0° 9′ 5″ westPopulation
14,800Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)Open location code
9C3XCRVX+VFOpenStreetMap ID
node 626591740OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2656580Wikidata ID
Q804946
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Satellite Map
Discover Balham from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Balham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلهام، لندن”
- Arabic: “بلهام”
- Basque: “Balham”
- Bulgarian: “Балъм”
- Cebuano: “Balham”
- Chinese: “巴勒姆”
- Chinese: “巴勒汉姆”
- Chinese: “巴勒漢姆”
- Dutch: “Balham”
- French: “Balham”
- German: “Balham”
- Hebrew: “בלהאם”
- Irish: “Balham”
- Italian: “Balham”
- Japanese: “バーラム (ロンドン)”
- Japanese: “バラム (ロンドン)”
- Japanese: “バラム”
- Korean: “발함”
- Korean: “밸럼”
- Korean: “밸햄”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balham, London”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balham”
- Norwegian: “Balham”
- Polish: “Balham”
- Russian: “Бэлем”
- Spanish: “Balham”
- Swedish: “Balham, England”
- Swedish: “Balham”
- Turkish: “Balham”
- Ukrainian: “Белгем”
- Urdu: “بالہم”
- Welsh: “Balham, Llundain”
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