Balham is a Town in the county of Greater London.

Balham postcode: SW12 9AR

Retail in Balham

There are great places to visit near Balham including some great cities, castles, museums, rivers and streams, shopping centres, towns, historic monuments and airports.

The area around Balham's best cities can be found at London.

The Tower of London is one of Balham's best, nearby castles to visit in Balham.

Don't miss The Tower of London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, and Cutty Sark's museums if visiting the area around Balham.

The area around Balham's best rivers and streams can be found at River Thames at London.

Balham's best nearby shopping centres can be found at Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, and Whitgift Centre.

Towns to visit near Balham include Hendon, Greenwich, and Croydon.

Cutty Sark is one of Balham's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Balham.

There are a several good airports in the Balham area like London Biggin Hill Airport, Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, and London Heliport.

Balham History

There are some historic monuments around Balham:

• London Wall: remains of Roman and medieval wall from W end of All Hallows Church to 38 Camomile Street
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall, bastions and city gate of Aldgate from 17 Bevis Marks to India Street
• London Wall: section bounding All Hallows Churchyard
• Pumping engine house for Brunel's Thames tunnel
• Fishmongers' Hall
• Remains of Roman and medieval wall and gateway W of boundary of Stationers' Hall to Ludgate Hill
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and medieval bastion in Postman's Park and King Edward Street
• Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Goring Street
• Remains of Winchester Palace, Clink Street and waterfront
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Camomile Street
• Late Bronze Age enclosure at Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton
• Medieval moated manor house, 43m west of Cathay House
• Elmers End moated site, South Norwood
• Innholders' Hall
• Watermen's Hall
• Kensington Palace
• Inner Temple Hall Buttery
• Baynard's Castle, 78m south-west of St Benet Metropolitan Welsh Church
• The Hope Playhouse, and the remains of three further bear gardens, Bankside
• London Wall: remains of medieval and Roman wall extending 75yds (68m) N from Trinity Place to railway
• The Globe Theatre
• London Wall: section from underground railway to Tower Hill GUARDIANSHIP
• Milestone outside No. 135 Cheam Road, Cheam
• London Wall: section of Roman wall within the London Wall underground car park, 25m north of Austral House and 55m north west of Coleman Street
• Monument
• A subterranean commercial ice-well (City of Westminster), Park Crescent West, W1
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion (4a) at Crutched Friars
• Stationers' Hall
• London Wall: site of Newgate and 121-124 Newgate Street, remains of Roman and medieval wall, gateway and bastion
• Tower of old church, Ewell
• London Wall: remains of Roman fort wall and east gate under Aldermanbury
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastion at Noble Street
• Roman amphitheatre, Guildhall Yard
• Caesar's Camp, Wimbledon Common
• Barnard's Inn Hall (Mercers' School)
• Vintners' Hall
• The Chapter House and Pyx Chamber in the abbey cloisters, Westminster Abbey
• Dyers' Hall
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and Roman, medieval and post-medieval gateway at Aldersgate
• Apothecaries' Hall
• The Curtain Playhouse
• Nonsuch Palace, its formal gardens and associated remains, and Cuddington medieval settlement
• The Jewel Tower
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and conduit and medieval postern, Bloomfield House to site of Moor Gate
• Milestone in Sutton High Street
• Dovecote, Beddington Park
• Painter Stainers' Hall
• London Wall: the west gate of Cripplegate fort and a section of Roman wall in London Wall underground car park, adjacent to Noble Street
• The Rose Theatre, Rose Court, Southwark
• Roman riverboat, 136m west of Greenwood Theatre
• Tower of London
• Fulham Palace moated site
• Roman wall in basement of 90 Gracechurch Street
• Croham Hurst round barrow
• London Wall: site of the Roman and medieval gateway of Cripple Gate
• Remains of St Pancras Church, Pancras Lane
• Roman villa E of Beddington Park
• Romano-British bath house and medieval remains at 11-15 Borough High Street
• St John the Baptist's Church gateway, Howley Road
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastions, west and north of Monkwell Square
• Tower Hill West
• Queenhithe dock
• Pottery kiln in Walmer Road
• Armourers' and Brasiers' Hall
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and bastion beneath Crosswall, No. 1 America Square and Fenchurch Street railway station
• Morden Park Mound
• The Augustinian Priory of St Mary at Merton, 271m ENE of Abbey Wall Works
• Milestone in Brighton Road
• Skinners' Hall
• Merchant Taylors' Hall
• Goldsmiths' Hall
• Abbey buildings, Bermondsey
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall at St Alphage Garden, incorporating remains of St Alphage's Church
• Huggin Hill Roman bath house, 120m WNW of St James's Church
• Structures of archaeological interest below Billingsgate Market
• Benedictine nunnery of St Mary, Clerkenwell
• Roman hypocaust and building on site of Coal Exchange
• Roman Bath House, Shadwell
• London Wall: section in Amen Court
• London Wall: section of Roman wall at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey
• Smiths' Wharf
• The London Greyfriars, site of, Newgate Street, Farringdon
• Roman governor's palace (site of)
• Tallow Chandlers' Hall
• The Theatre Playhouse