Battersea is a Town in the county of Greater London.

Battersea postcode: SW11 3HW

Retail in Battersea

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

The area close to Battersea boasts some of the best cities including London.

Places near Battersea feature a number of interesting castles including The Tower of London.

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

There are a several good rivers and streams in the area around Battersea like River Thames at London.

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

Hendon, Greenwich, and Croydon are great places to visit near Battersea if you like towns.

Don't miss Cutty Sark's historic monuments if visiting the area around Battersea.

The area around Battersea features a number of interesting airports including London Biggin Hill Airport, Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, and London Heliport.

Battersea History

There are some historic monuments around Battersea:

• Roman wall in basement of 90 Gracechurch Street
• Benedictine nunnery of St Mary, Clerkenwell
• Smiths' Wharf
• Stationers' Hall
• The Jewel Tower
• Inner Temple Hall Buttery
• Monument
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall at St Alphage Garden, incorporating remains of St Alphage's Church
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastion at Noble Street
• Fishmongers' Hall
• Merchant Taylors' Hall
• Skinners' Hall
• Roman riverboat, 136m west of Greenwood Theatre
• Structures of archaeological interest below Billingsgate Market
• London Wall: section of Roman wall at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey
• Dovecote, Beddington Park
• Remains of Winchester Palace, Clink Street and waterfront
• The Theatre Playhouse
• Roman hypocaust and building on site of Coal Exchange
• Watermen's Hall
• Romano-British bath house and medieval remains at 11-15 Borough High Street
• Barnard's Inn Hall (Mercers' School)
• 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
• London Wall: section from underground railway to Tower Hill GUARDIANSHIP
• Tower of London
• Goldsmiths' Hall
• London Wall: site of Newgate and 121-124 Newgate Street, remains of Roman and medieval wall, gateway and bastion
• London Wall: remains of Roman and medieval wall from W end of All Hallows Church to 38 Camomile Street
• The Augustinian Priory of St Mary at Merton, 271m ENE of Abbey Wall Works
• London Wall: section bounding All Hallows Churchyard
• Bell Barrow called Boadicea's Grave, 650m west of Millfield Cottage
• Pottery kiln in Walmer Road
• Morden Park Mound
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and Roman, medieval and post-medieval gateway at Aldersgate
• The London Greyfriars, site of, Newgate Street, Farringdon
• Painter Stainers' Hall
• The Chapter House and Pyx Chamber in the abbey cloisters, Westminster Abbey
• Coombe Conduit
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Goring Street
• Abbey buildings, Bermondsey
• Roman governor's palace (site of)
• Fulham Palace moated site
• Innholders' Hall
• London Wall: remains of Roman fort wall and east gate under Aldermanbury
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall, bastions and city gate of Aldgate from 17 Bevis Marks to India Street
• Remains of St Pancras Church, Pancras Lane
• London Wall: the west gate of Cripplegate fort and a section of Roman wall in London Wall underground car park, adjacent to Noble Street
• Tallow Chandlers' Hall
• Tower Hill West
• Chiswick House
• Armourers' and Brasiers' Hall
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and conduit and medieval postern, Bloomfield House to site of Moor Gate
• London Wall: remains of medieval and Roman wall extending 75yds (68m) N from Trinity Place to railway
• A subterranean commercial ice-well (City of Westminster), Park Crescent West, W1
• The Curtain Playhouse
• Caesar's Camp, Wimbledon Common
• The Hope Playhouse, and the remains of three further bear gardens, Bankside
• Kensington Palace
• Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital
• 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
• Baynard's Castle, 78m south-west of St Benet Metropolitan Welsh Church
• Huggin Hill Roman bath house, 120m WNW of St James's Church
• London Wall: section in Amen Court
• St John the Baptist's Church gateway, Howley Road
• Roman amphitheatre, Guildhall Yard
• Dyers' Hall
• Queenhithe dock
• The Globe Theatre
• Vintners' Hall
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Camomile Street
• The Rose Theatre, Rose Court, Southwark
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastions, west and north of Monkwell Square
• London Wall: site of the Roman and medieval gateway of Cripple Gate
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and bastion beneath Crosswall, No. 1 America Square and Fenchurch Street railway station
• Apothecaries' Hall
• Roman villa E of Beddington Park
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion (4a) at Crutched Friars