Wandsworth Common in 1746: John Rocque’s map, coloured

The country round Wandsworth Common from John Rocque’s great survey of London and the country ten miles round, published in 1746, here from a hand-coloured copy (the “Bern” copy). It runs from the Thames at Wandsworth Creek and Battersea down to Garratt Green and Balham. The Common is named as such, unenclosed and crossed by tracks, with the slopes shown by hachures, the Wandle running south past Garratt Lane, and the fields, orchards and market gardens drawn plot by plot.

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The map. Rocque’s Exact Survey of the Citys of London, Westminster … and the Country near Ten Miles round, in sixteen sheets, was engraved by Richard Parr (whose signature is at the bottom right) and published in 1746. It is the first map to name “Wandsworth Common” as such.

This copy. A detail of the coloured copy, cleaned up: the paper evened out, the colours strengthened and the engraving sharpened. The image is smaller than the other zoomable maps, so it will not zoom in as far.

See also. John Rocque’s maps, and John Corris’s Plan of Battersea, 1787, forty years on.

historyofwandsworthcommon.org → Maps

Wandsworth Common in 1746
John Rocque’s map, in colour

historyofwandsworthcommon.org → Maps

Wandsworth Common in 1746 John Rocque’s map, in colour

Wandsworth Common in 1746
John Rocque’s map, in colour