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of housing around the New Spring Gardens (later Vauxhall Gardens) pleasure park, opened in around 1661, the land at Vauxhall remained sparsely populated into the 19th century, with the nearest fixed river crossings being the bridges at Westminster, 1 mi downstream, and Battersea, 2 mi upstream. In 1806 a scheme was proposed by Ralph Dodd to open the south bank of the Thames for development,

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