10 things you didn't know about Wandsworth

• London's First Black Mayor served in Wandsworth.
  John Archer took up the post in 1913 in Battersea.
• Wandsworth appears in the Domesday Book as
  Wandesorde and Wendelesorde. This means
  'enclosure of a man named Waendel'.
• In 2005 a crater on Mars was named after Tooting
  by the International Astronomical Union.
• There are a higher proportion of residents with Broadband access in Wandsworth than anywhere else in the country.
• The world famous Battersea Dogs and Cats Home finds new homes for more than 5,000 animals a year.
• At peak times 117 trains an hour stop at Clapham Junction Station.
• Wandsworth is the largest inner London borough.
• In 1965 Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs escaped from Wandsworth Prison.
• Battersea Power Station, built in 1939, was the first in a series of generators set up as part of the National Grid.
• Admiral Nelson used to fish on the river Wandle, which formed part of the estate he bought for his lover Emma Hamilton.