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Wandsworth, Battersea, Clapham and Tooting in 1862
Stanford’s Library Map of London and its Suburbs

Part of Edward Stanford’s great map of London and its suburbs, published in 1862, in its original colouring: commons and open spaces green, parish boundaries red. It runs from the Thames at Wandsworth and Battersea to Lower Tooting and Lambeth Cemetery, and from Wimbledon Park across to Clapham Common and Streatham. Wandsworth Common still stretches almost unbroken from St John’s Hill to Bolingbroke Grove, where Stanford names “The Five Houses”, and the first new streets of the Conservative Land Society are being laid out behind them. Zoom in to read the names of the big houses.

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The map. Edward Stanford’s Library Map of London and its Suburbs was issued in 1862 as a large map in many sheets, at six inches to the mile. It came between the tithe maps of the 1830s and 1840s and the first large-scale Ordnance Survey maps of the 1860s, and it records the area just as the railways and the first building estates were reaching it.

This copy. A scan of part of the map, gently cleaned. The join between two of the original sheets, which ran down through Wandsworth Common and the Five Houses, has been painted out, and the white margin trimmed. The soft line across the middle is a fold in the paper and has been left.

See also. The Battersea tithe map of 1838, the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map of the 1860s, and the five-foot town plans of the 1860s and the 1890s.

Maps of this age are out of copyright. Prepared by Philip Boys, with Claude.

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