Last modified: 2 November 2026
The whole parish of All Saints, Wandsworth, as surveyed by C. Lee of Golden Square, London, in 1841 for the commutation of tithes; the same surveyor had mapped Battersea three years earlier. Every field, garden and building is drawn and numbered; the numbers refer to the tithe apportionment, which lists each plot’s owner, occupier, use and size. The map runs from the Thames and the town on the Wandle, through the old open fields, to the West Common and Wimbledon Park on one side and the East Common – Wandsworth Common – on the other, with the new County Asylum near Springfield in the south. Zoom right in to read the plot numbers and field names.
The map. Tithe maps were drawn after the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836, which replaced tithes paid in kind with a money rent charge. Each parish map came with an apportionment: a schedule, keyed to the plot numbers, of who owned and occupied every piece of land, what it was used for and how much it was charged. Wandsworth’s was surveyed in 1841, just as the London and South Western Railway had been driven across the parish.
This copy. A colour copy of the map, cleaned up to make it easier to read: the yellowed and stained paper has been evened out, the colour washes strengthened and the pen lines sharpened. Nothing has been added or taken away. The certificates of the Tithe Commissioners (top left) and of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (bottom left) are kept.
See also. The Battersea tithe map of 1838, by the same surveyor, and the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map of the 1860s.
Maps of this age are out of copyright. Prepared by Philip Boys, with Claude.
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