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

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.

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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, shown as it is. The paler lines across it are the joins between the panels of the original, which was mounted on linen to fold. There is also a joined version, with the linen strips taken out, the panels closed up and the border trimmed off.

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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