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From Fulham to Mitcham in 1866
Stanford’s Library Map of London and its Suburbs, joined

The whole south-west sheet of Edward Stanford’s Library Map of London and its Suburbs, in the edition of 1866, at six inches to the mile. It runs from Fulham, Chelsea and Battersea Park in the north down to Merton and Mitcham, and from Wimbledon Common across to Clapham Common and Tooting. Wandsworth Common sits near the middle, already cut through by the railways, with the Royal Victoria Patriotic School on its west side and the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum to the south. Zoom in to read the names of the houses and farms. On this version the folding joins have been closed up, so the map reads as one sheet.

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The map. Edward Stanford’s Library Map of London and its Suburbs was first published in 1862, in many sheets at six inches to the mile, and was reissued with revisions. This is the south-west sheet of the 1866 edition, a few years later than our 1862 copy and covering a much wider area.

This copy. The David Rumsey Map Collection’s scan of the sheet, tidied. The original was cut into twenty panels and mounted on linen so that it could fold, which left strips of bare linen between the panels. Here the linen has been taken out and the panels closed up, each nudged by a few pixels where needed so that roads, railways and boundaries run on across the joins. The printed border, title, scale and key round the edge have been trimmed off. The image has also been cleaned up: the panels, which had aged to slightly different shades, have been evened out to one light cream, the colour washes freshened and the engraving sharpened. Faint hairlines remain at some of the joins, and the hand colouring does not always match from one panel to the next, as on the original.

As scanned. The same sheet as it was scanned, with the linen joins, border, title, scale and key.

See also. Stanford’s map of 1862, the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map of the 1860s and the five-foot town plan of the 1860s.

Image: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries, used under its Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Prepared by Philip Boys, with Claude.

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