Last modified: 2 November 2026
The north-western part of the parish of Streatham, from its tithe map of 1839: the hamlets of Balham and Upper Tooting strung along the road to London, with the parishes of Wandsworth, Battersea and Clapham on its borders. Every field, garden and building has its number, which leads to the owner, occupier, land use and acreage in the tithe apportionment. Zoom in to read the numbers.
The map. Under the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836, tithes paid in kind were turned into a money rent-charge, and each parish was surveyed so that the charge could be shared out field by field. This map, at three chains to the inch, is the one certified for Streatham by the Tithe Commissioners William Blamire and T. W. Buller; the numbers on it are keyed to the written apportionment. At its western tip it reaches the “Tram Road from Croydon”, the horse-drawn Surrey Iron Railway.
This copy. Part of the map only: it stops at the right-hand edge, so fields in the south-east of this section are cut off. The colours are the original ones — the roads in a pinkish-brown wash, ponds and streams in blue-green, boundaries edged in green; the torn left margin has been trimmed, the ink darkened a little and sharpened so that the plot numbers read clearly, the stained, yellowed paper evened out to a light cream and the colour washes strengthened. Folds and faint stains remain.
See also. The Battersea tithe map of 1838, Stanford’s map of 1862, 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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