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.

London is one of Balham's best, nearby cities to visit in Balham.

There are a number of castles near to Balham including The Tower of London.

The area around Balham boasts some of the best museums including The Tower of London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, and Cutty Sark.

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

Balham has some unmissable shopping centres nearby like Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, and Whitgift Centre.

Hendon, Greenwich, and Croydon are some of Balham best towns to visit near Balham.

The area around Balham's best historic monuments can be found at Cutty Sark.

Airports to visit near Balham include London Biggin Hill Airport, Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, and London Heliport.

Balham History

There are some historic monuments around Balham:

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