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Wandsworth Common in 1800
Thomas Milne’s land-use map

The country round Wandsworth Common from Thomas Milne’s land-use plan of London and its environs, 1800, in which every field is coloured and lettered by what it was used for. It runs from the Thames at Battersea Bridge and Nine Elms down to Merton and Mitcham, and from the Wandle to Brixton and Streatham. Wandsworth Common and Battersea Common are named separately, and Clapham, Tooting and Streatham Commons are all open.

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The map. Milne’s plan, published in 1800, is the earliest detailed land-use map of the London area. Its colours and letters mark arable, meadow and pasture, market gardens, nurseries, parks and woods; the manors and parishes are named in spaced capitals across the fields.

This copy. A detail, shown as supplied.

See also. John Corris’s Plan of Battersea, 1787, and the Ordnance Survey one-inch map, about 1810.

Prepared by Philip Boys, with Claude.

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