The name Wandsworth House first appears in the Belfast Newsletter on Saturday 24 June 1865. The name Wandsworth begins to appear in the 1870 Belfast And Province Of Ulster Directory. It is likely the "Wandsworth" streets like so many streets are called after the local "Big House".
"The Surveyor submitted the following names for new streets on the Wandsworth Road side of the Corporation’s Housing Scheme:
Campbell Park Avenue – Wandsworth Parade
Ardgreenan Gardens – Ardgreenan Place, Wandsworth Crescent, Wandsworth Place and Ardgreenan Crescent
Resolved: That the names be approved". (14th February 1922).