Last modified: 1 November 2026
Six sheets of Edward Stanford’s Library Map of London and its Suburbs, in the edition of 1877, joined into one map at six inches to the mile. It runs from Fulham, Chelsea and Millbank on the Thames down to Merton and Mitcham, and from Wimbledon across to Clapham and Brixton. Fifteen years on from the 1862 edition, the new streets have spread over Battersea and Clapham and are reaching the edges of Wandsworth Common. Zoom in to read the names of the streets and houses.
The map. Edward Stanford’s Library Map of London and its Suburbs was first published in 1862, on 24 sheets at six inches to the mile, and was revised and reissued over the following years. These are sheets 13, 14, 17, 18, 21 and 22 of the edition dated 1877.
This copy. The David Rumsey Map Collection’s scans of the six sheets, which were scanned separately. Each has been straightened and its border cut away at the map’s own edge line, and the six have been brought to the same size and butted together. Nothing else has been altered; the faint lines that cross each sheet are Stanford’s own reference grid.
See also. Stanford’s map of 1862 and the south-west sheet of 1866, the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map of the 1860s and the five-foot town plan of the 1890s.
Images: 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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