Battle Bridge refers to the area currently known as King's Cross (London, England). It was traditionally believed to be the site of the legendary battle between Queen Boudicca, the Iceni warrior queen, and the Roman invaders. The battle reportedly took place at Broad Ford Bridge, a crossing of the River Fleet, which became colloquially called "Battle Bridge." Urban folklore claims that Queen Boudicca is buried beneath platform nine  or ten at King's Cross Station. It was a rural area until the 18th century when it began to be developed and  grew in industrial production with the arrival of gasworks and other manufacturing businesses, as long as the Regent's Canal, completed in 1820, which linked King's Cross to northern industrial cities. In 1830, a monument holding a statue of King George IV was erected at the Battle Bridge crossroads and the new name of King's Cross stuck, though the monument was ridiculed and eventually removed in 1845. Between 1849 and 1852, the Great Northern Railway established their London terminus in King's Cross which led to increased industrial expansion and residential developments.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition: 

Phase 1

Of Groundsel and Chickweed Sellers. (Volume 1): "The grunsell a gentleman gives me leave to get out of his garden: that’s down Battle-bridge way, in the Chalk-road, leading to Holloway. I gets there every morning about nine. I goes there straight. After I have got my chickweed, I generally gathers enough of each to make up a dozen halfpenny bunches."

Phase 2 

OF THE WOMEN STREET-SELLERS. (Volume 1)