The History of Wandsworth Common

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SOURCES

Last modified: 7 October 2026

Books, articles and directories, transcribed in full

— Henry Simmonds, All About Battersea, 1882 - complete text paginated and searchable.

— Owen Manning and William Bray, The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, vol. III, 1814 - the chapters on Battersea, Wandsworth, Clapham, Tooting and Wimbledon, complete text.

— Edward Wedlake Brayley, A Topographical History of Surrey, vol. III, 1850 - the accounts of Wandsworth, Battersea, Clapham, Tooting, Streatham (with Balham) and Wimbledon, complete text; and from vol. I, Gideon Mantell’s sketch of the geology of Surrey, with its plates.

— Metallurgicon, 1867

— A. G. Browning and R. E. G. Kirk, ‘The Early History of Battersea’, Surrey Archaeological Collections X, 1891 - complete text.

— Roger Logan, Between the Commons: South Battersea’s Formative Years, 1851–1900, 2007 - complete text, with figures and data annexes. With it: the map sequence, Logan’s six sketch-maps of South Battersea, 1851–1900, on a slider.

— Timothy Walker, ’Twixt the Commons, 2010 - transcribed excerpts.

— William Snelgrave, A New Account of Some Parts of Guinea, and the Slave-Trade, 1734 - complete text, searchable, with notes on the passages about his owner Humphry Morice (see Paggen, Morice and the slave trade).