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What happened was this: Vauxhall Gardens were a famous London pleasure ground and “place of dalliance,” opened in 1660 (and known until 1785 as New Spring Gardens).
On the other hand, the V, au -sound, and x in Vauxhall are satisfactorily represented by the VOKS sequence so that the etymology given by Bryson appears to be preferable.
They were named for their location in Vauxhall, south of the Thames.
Bill Bryson's enjoyable “English Know-how, No Problem” (Spring 1991) states that the Russian word for railroad station vagzal comes from Vauxhall in London.
The London Vauxhall Gardens closed in 1859, but the Russian word for `railway station' has preserved their name.