WANSWORTH, (Surrey) or WANDLESWORTH, bet. Battersey and Putney, has its name from the r. Wandle, which passes through it under a bridge, called the Sink of the Country, into the Thames. Here are several handsome houses of the gentry and citizens of London, and a mf. of brass plates, for kettles, scillets, frying-pans, &c. It has a distinct cemetery from the Ch.-yard, (which is in the middle of the T.) on the S. side of the great road from London. Among other benefactors to this place, Henry Smith, ald. of London, gave 500 l. to buy lands for the relief of its poor, and setting them at work; and Susannnh Powel, whose husband had been servant to Q. Eliz. 30 years, and 9 to James I. settled a fund out of the parsonage, for 4 d. in bread, and as much in money, to be given every Sunday to 12 poor widows, and 40 s. a year to put out a poor child apprentice every year; both to continue for ever. Here is a ch. sc. for 40 boys.