Put your hands together

MANY corners of London have evolved over time, but Clapham has changed its location as much as its nature. At first, the village centred on the long-lost manor house at Turret Grove—home, among others, to Henry Atkins, James I’s Court physician, who could afford it after the King recompensed him lavishly for helping an infant Charles I recover from illness in 1604—and the church in Rectory Grove, rebuilt in 1815 as the forward-thinking St Paul’s, where a wildlife garden supports many invertebrate species, including bees from local hives (honey