1841 Census: Parish of Wimbledon
Enumeration District Descriptions
HO 107/1069/5 — Registrar’s District: Wimbledon; Superintendent Registrar’s District: Kingston
Note: Wimbledon was administered under the Kingston Superintendent Registrar’s District, entirely separate from Wandsworth & Clapham. These transcriptions are included here as contextual material, primarily because Wimbledon Park — the private deer park of Earl Spencer — appears in the Wimbledon EDs, and the Spencer family were the principal opponents of the campaign to preserve Wandsworth Common from enclosure twenty years later in the 1860s and 70s. Wimbledon is not otherwise part of this site’s main research area.
County: Surrey
Parish: Wimbledon
Registrar’s District: Wimbledon
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Kingston
Registrar: John Kelly
Superintendent Registrar: W. F. Warhop(?)
TNA Piece Reference: HO 107/1069/5
Enumeration Districts — Index
Enumeration District 1
HO 107/1069/5 — Enumerator: John Bishop
HO 107/1069/5: Wimbledon ED1 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)
Enumerator: John Bishop
Registrar: John Kelly
Superintendent Registrar: W. F. Warhop(?)
Description: All that North part of Wimbledon beginning at the Duke of Somerset’s (at Wimbledon Park) thence along the North side of Church Lane, the North side of the Village, the Mason’s Estate along the Park Wall of Wimbledon House on the London Road to the Windmill on the Common, thence to Bigben Bottom taking in Heathfield, then to the bumping post in Wimbledon Park and along the carriage road back to the Duke of Somerset’s.
The Duke of Somerset held the Wimbledon Park mansion at this date. Wimbledon Park itself was the private deer park of Earl Spencer. The Windmill on Wimbledon Common still stands.
Enumeration District 2
HO 107/1069/5 — Enumerator: Jas. Holland
HO 107/1069/5: Wimbledon ED2 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)
Enumerator: Jas. Holland
Registrar: John Kelly
Superintendent Registrar: W. F. Warhop(?)
Description: All that part of Wimbledon beginning at Belvidere House, along the South side of Church Lane to Thorns Gate, along the South side of the Village to Mr Brinkworthy’s, down the garden to Major Oliphant’s to the Finger Post by Mr Brighton’s, down the hill, along the Iron Mill’s Lane to the Devil’s Gap, across the Park north to the Duke of Somerset’s, back to Belvidere House.
The Devil’s Gap is an evocative local place-name, presumably a narrow pass or sunken way on the edge of Wimbledon Park.
Enumeration District 3
HO 107/1069/5 — Enumerator: William Matths(?) (possibly Matthews)
HO 107/1069/5: Wimbledon ED3 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)
Enumerator: William Matths(?) (possibly Matthews)
Registrar: John Kelly
Superintendent Registrar: W. F. Warhop(?)
Description: All that part of Wimbledon from Major Oliphant’s to the Causeway (near alias Marryat’s Lodge) West, to the Almshouse Lane, along the South side of Do. to the Bottom of Mr Thompson Hankey’s Garden, then South to the Ridgway Lane near Lord Battersham’s(?), East to Byres Gate and along the North side of the Ridgway and Northward back to Major Oliphant’s.
Enumeration District 4
HO 107/1069/5 — Enumerator: not recorded
HO 107/1069/5: Wimbledon ED4 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)
Enumerator: not recorded
Registrar: John Kelly
Superintendent Registrar: W. F. Warhop(?)
Description: All that North and West part of Wimbledon from the Causeway (near Mr Marryat’s Lodge) along the London Road to the South of the Windmill, down to the Boundary at the South of Newlands Farm, thence Westward to Beverley Lane, South to Mill Corner, thence Eastward skirting Broomfield Wood to near Lord Cottenham’s, Northward by the back of Mr Thompson Hankey’s Garden and along the Almshouse Lane back to the Causeway.
Lord Cottenham was Lord Chancellor 1836–41; his Wimbledon estate is well documented. His presence here as a named landmark in the ED boundary is a useful date anchor.
Transcriptions made June 2026 from original images held by The National Archives (HO 107/1069/5). © historyofwandsworthcommon.org
