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The Perambulation of Wandsworth Parish Boundaries in 1788
[TEXT BELOW NEEDS TIDYING UP AND CHECKING AGAINST THE TWO WH ARTICLES. NB The description is breathless, continuous, with very few full stops. To break it up, I've started to introduce some line breaks when new landmarks and inclosures are recorded. But there need to be more breaks.]
[PB: Part 1 of the Wandsworth Historian article starts here.]
First instalment of a two-part transcription of the Wandsworth Vestry Minutes of May 1788 [PB: 7 May] reporting the Perambulation that had taken place earlier in the month [PB: 1 May] of parish boundaries, and checking of enclosures of common land. Church-warden Charles Rooke's account is given with original spellings and punctuation. Minor changes are denoted by enclosure in square brackets as are reference letters to sites on the sketch maps; inserted superscript numerals refer to editorial foot-notes giving additional information (The Vestry Minutes are in the Archives of the Local History Library at Battersea and printed here with permission).
[PB: The transcription starts here.
AT A General Meeting of the Parishioners in a Free and Open Vestry, held on Wednesday the 7th day of May 1788., Mr Church Warden Rooke presented to the Vestry the Minutes which he had taken of the Proceedings of the Parishioners in their Perambulation of the Bounds of the Parish on Thursday the first Instant; which minutes being Read and a Motion being made and seconded. Resolved. that the said Minutes be entered in the Vestry Minute Book of this Parish, & which are as follows.
Perambulation of the Bounds of the Parish of Wandsworth in the County of Surrey on Thursday the first of May One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Eight by The Rev. Robert Holt Butcher, Vicar [1], Mr Charles Rooke [and], Mr Nathaniel Constable [2], Church Wardens, Mr John Dervill [and], Mr James Eaton, Sidesmen, Mr William Hardy, Overseer, met in the Vestry Room, at the Church to settle agreeable to the Antient Mode the order of Perambulation
& then proceeded [from the Church] accompanied by, Mr Thomas Woodward late Church Warden, Mr Thos Edmonds [3], Mr in Furmage Senr, Mr Jno Constable Senr [4], Mr James Oliver [5], Mr Josh Kneeler, Mr Robert Atkinson Jnt sic, Mr Jno Hall Senr6, Mr Josh Burrill, Mr Josh Stockwell, Mr Willm Newton [7], Mr Saml Ripley [8], Mr Willm Jones, Mr Willm Backhouse, Mr Jno Grint, Mr Thos Lee, Mr Thos Wooder, Mr Richard Creasy, Mr Wm Greenfield, Mr Jno Furmage Junr, Mr
[1. Vicar of All Saints 1778 — 1823. 2. Blacksmith. 3. Mealman. 4. Carpenter. 5. Blacksmith. 6. Wheelwright. 7. Miller. ]
Noble Bennett, Mr Chas Rooke Junr, Mr Sylvester Blackmore Junr, Mr Frans Newton9, Mr Jas Webb, Mr Wm Maybank Senr, Mr Wm Maybank Junr, Mr Jno Green, Mr ]Jno?] Green Junr, Mr Thos Green [10], Mr George Dervill with Benjamin Hawkins Master of the Free School and the Green Coat Boys;, Mr John Surr Master of the Workhouse with the Workhouse Boys, Mr James Tompkins Sexton and acting Parish Clerk &, Mr Thos Taylor Beadle of the said Parish from the Church,
about Seven o Clock in the Morn.g down the Plain and along the Causeway to, Mr Richd Bush's Water Mill [11], late Messrs Bell & Goss's [12]
went through the said Mill & came out of a Door or Gate on the east side of the said Mill,
proceeded on the Road through a Place known and called by the name of Kings Head Court [13],
into Bridge Field, on the entrance of which [A] on the right Hand was a small enclosed Encroachment of a [CHECK punctuation] Mr Randalls [14], which Inclosure we opened by taking down two or three Pales and sent the Green Coat Boys into the said Inclosure,
proceeded from thence across the Road leading up to Slough Lane to two more of, Mr Randall inclosed Encroachments, which we laid open in the same manner as that before,
some of the Perambulators after laid open another Inclosure adjoining to, Mr Randall's and belonging to Major Fleming [15] , and on the Hill in the said field, behind, Mr Webster's [16] House laid open two more Inclosures belonging to the said
[8. Tallow Chandler. 9. Mealman. 10. Waterman. 11. "Loampit Mill" near the Causeway. 12. Richard Bush, Thomas How Mast-erman, Samuel Payne, Wardell Baynes & John Easton, Malt Distillers with premises on the extreme north-eastern Wandsworth boundary. 13. Site of an old Inn of that name? 14. Probably John Randall, Malt Factor. 15. Possibly Major Richard Fleming. 16. Probably John Webster Esq. ]
Major Fleming, with another Inclosure belonging to the abovenamed, Mr Webster and behind the said, Mr Webster's House, all of which Inclosures we sent the Green Coat & Workhouse Boys into;
on the left leading from Kings Head Court and adjoining a Malt House" occupied by, Mr Jno. Butcher took down two Rails of another Inclosure belonging to the before mentioned,
Mr Randall & passed on to another Inclosure to the Eastward of the said Malt House, likewise belonging to the said, Mr Randall which we laid open by taking down a Rail or two, and sent the Boys in as before
then we returned back to the End of, Mr Phillips's Garden Wall [18] the corner of Kings Head Court passed down the Road, adjoining the said Wall and leading to the Water side, came to an Inclosure made by, Mr Joseph Peters [19] & laid the same open taking some Rails down, and sent the Boys through proceeded along, and near the Water side to the West End of, Mrs Brookes's [20] House & next the Waterside, where we took down a Post, which had been erected by the said, Mrs Brookes to prevent Carriages passing that Road, and left the same near the spot; next proceeded up a Passage at the East end of, Mrs Brookes's House, and between the said House and a Public House known by the sign of the White Horse [21], and in the Occupation of, Mr William Blackbourn [22] at the top of the said Passage we turned to the Right Hand near to the end of which we came to another Post, erected by the said, Mrs Brookes for the same purpose as the Post before mentioned which we also took down, and left on the Premises then we passed on to an Hog stye & some other small Erections belonging to, Mr James Furmage, a Baker took down some of the Paling & went on to a small new House belonging to, Mr Thos Green [23] a Waterman took down some Pales which inclosed a Garden belonging to the said House (all which Ground is Lammas Land [24]) sent the Green Coat and Workhouse Boys into
[17. Malthouse in Bridge Field erected by Ambrose Snoswell, Maltster, c. 1765 and let to John Butcher in 1788. 18. Probably Matthews Close (Thomas Phillips, Gardener). 19. Described as Print Cutter of Wandsworth in 1794. 20. Widow of Samuel Brooks, London Broker, with a large Thames-side house (first west from the Rising
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the same, went to the other side of the Road & nearly opposite, Mr Green's House to a small Inclosure belonging to a Mr Saunders which we laid open by taking down a Pale or two from thence we turned back, passed the End of Apothecary's Row [25] & by the end of the Passage between, Mrs Brookes's & the White Horse on a Road Lying between the Back of the Houses at the Water Side and the Garden Ground in Bridge Field leading to the Jews Row [26], and Carter's Hithe [27], took out a Pale or two from each of the small inclosed Gardens belonging to the said Houses at the Water Side & on the said Road, and most of which Houses are inhabited by poor Fishermen went up Jews Row cut down a Rail or two, that obstructed the foot Passengers, proceeded round the House known by the name of the Jews House and now in the Occupation of the Revd Thos Sampson as an Academy, into a Garden at the West End, and adjoining the said House (which said Garden is known by the name of the Vineyard) where we took down a Pale or two, and sent the Green Coat & Workhouse Boys in, from thence we returned by the Revd T. Sampson's down the Road leading to Carter's Hithe to a Garden late in the Occupation of a Mr Lawrance [28] a stationer, but now in possession of a Mrs Smith took down several Pales and Palisadoes belonging to the said Garden, when some of the Perambulators together with the Green Coat & Workhouse Boys went over the said Premises and proceeded over two inclosed Encroachments made by the aforesaid, Mr Lawrance, and adjoining the abovementioned Garden & now in the Tenure of the afore named, Mrs Smith likewise sent the Boys through another Passage and Garden in the Occupation of a Mr Easton [29]; and all of which Gardens and Fields in the Possession of, Mrs Smith and, Mr Easton are Lammas Land. The description is breathless, continuous, with very few full stops. To break it up, I've started to introduce some line breaks when new landmarks and inclosures are recorded. There need to be more breaks.]
Next proceeded round Carter's Hithe to a small Garden belonging to a Mr Charles Bostuck
[Sun/the White Horse) with special architectural features — an octagonal window and a backward storey 25. supported on columns. 21. Formerly the Rising Sun. 26. 22. Innkeeper, the White Horse. 23. Thames-side house abutting south 27. on Apothecaries Row. 28. 24. Common pasturage until spring and 29. in private use until 1 August each year. A route south of Thames-side buildings at the west end of Water Side. A route northwards to Water Side from York Road. Water Side landing place. Montague Lawrence. John Easton, partner in Bush & Co., Malt Distillers.
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a Waterman where we took down a Pale or two & sent the Boys in from thence proceeded along the Waterside leaving Mr William Newton's Windmill (B) on the Right Hand, to the corner of a House occupied by a Mr Baynes [30] a Gentleman concerned in the Malt Distillery with Messrs Bush & Co.; the East end of which House IC] is one of the East Boundaries of the Parish of Wandsworth where we sung the Hundredth Psalm proceeded by a Low Post marked WP1782 which is a Boundary Post of this Parish, went up the side of the Ditch to the Right of which is Messrs Bush and Masterman's Hoggery * (Erected on Lammas Land and noticed accordingly) (*This interlineation was made by my consent signed Charles Rooke), on the Left a Garden Ground in the Occupation of Mrs Driver and lately held by Mr Daniel Carter Senr a Market Gardiner, close adjoining the Summer Road from Wandsworth to Battersea in two Posts along side each other, that next the Road [DJ marked BP1782, that next the Ditch WP65. Here the Perambulators divided, some few of whom, and part of the Green Coat Boys, went across the Road into Mr Bartlett's Garden and proceeded by the side of the Hedge at the West end of the said Garden up the East end of Mr Thos Tatlock's Garden Wall31 at the upper end of 30. Wardell Baynes. 31 Wall of a mansion previously the home of Sir Matthew Blakiston, one time Lord Mayor of London. 32. Christopher Masterman, retired Coal Merchant of Bridewell Precinct. C D TO BATTERSEA ("SUMMER ROAD")
Scale: approx. 6 in. : 1 mile 1 I G Spanish Close LONDON ROAD TO BATTERSEA 4 0 rrl 1 COMMON EAST
Fig. 1. Sketch map of north and east Wandsworth with the main route of perambulation shown by a broken line (- — -). A — G, Points referred to in the text. In Fig. 2 (over-page) the broken line continues from a point over one-third of a mile (approx. 2000 feet) beyond the ending on the Common shown in this Figure. which Wall & in the High Road leading from Wandsworth to London stands an High Boundary Post marked as follows, on the East side "Battersea Parish ends here 1783" on the South side "Wandsworth Parish ends here Erected I.C.J.S. Esq Church Wardens 1783" and which said Post divides the said Parishes of Battersea and Wandsworth. The rest of the Perambulators, with the other part of the Green Coat and Workhouse Boys, proceeded from the two Boundary Posts in the Summer Road to Battersea, as before mentioned, up the side of a Hedge towards the Jews Row, which said Hedge parts the Road & an Encroachment in the Tenure of Messrs Bush & Co: at the South West end of which Enclosure: we took down some Paling part of the Fence of
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Scale: approx. 6 in. : 1 mile
Fig. 2. Sketch map with the route (- — -) of the perambulators
continued from Fig. 1 southward over Wandsworth Common
to the crossing of Tooting Lane (Trinity Road) and south- westward in the direction of Garratt Lane.
the said Enclosure, & went in, then we crossed the Road to two Posts which stand on the external side of Mr Bartlett's Hedge and which Posts are Bolted together that Post to the Northward marked BP 1782 and that to the Southward marked WP — crossed a_ small Enclosure belonging to Mr Bartlett proceeded up Bridge Field by the end of Mr Bush's Garden Wall, to a Large enclosed Encroachment made by Mr Bush and in the Occupation of the said Mr Bush or Mr Masterman?2, took down several Pales and went through the said Enclosure, when we came to Mr Masterman's Garden took down some of the Paling, sent in some of the Perambulators with the Green Coat and Workhouse Boys, who went round the said Garden, and came out at a Door near the House, into the London High Road [E] nearly opposite
33. The French Horn and Half Moon Inn on south side of London (Southwark) Road.
34. Trinity Road.
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the French Horn Inn??. NB. In _ the aforementioned Garden of Mr Masterman ts a Coach House and Stabling at the corner of which & next the High Road we knocked out a Brick they being built on Lammas Land, as 1s all the before specified tnclosed Encroachments and Erections tn and near Bridge Field.
From Mr Mastermans Gate we proceeded up the London Road to the before mentioned Boundary Post at the end of Mr Tatlock's Garden Wall from which Post we crossed the London Road to some Oak Pales which enclose a Field in the Occupation of Mr Thos Vardon, which said Field is known by the name of Spanish Close [F], took down some of the Paling of the said enclosed Field & sent the Green Coat & Workhouse Boys in, passed two Boundary Posts which stand close within the said Paling, to two other Boundary Posts on the South Side of the said Field, but on a piece of Wandsworth Common lately enclosed by the aforesaid Mr Thos Vardon which said Posts are Bolted together, the one marked BP 87, the other WP 87.
[PB: The Common: Thomas Vardon's field and inclosure is Corris 235 and 236. "Mrs Brown's House on the Common" - this is the future Wilson House (on the site of Spencer Park)? Corris 237 is "Revd Jonathan Brown". CHECK adjacent plots in Corris Battersea.]
[We] passed on the said Field to another Post marked WP 65 which said Post stands nearly opposite the East end of Mr Brown's House on the Common - proceeded on to a High Boundary Post standing at the extreme end of Mr Vardon's Field, and which Post divides the Common belonging to the Parishes of Battersea and Wandsworth and of course stands on Common Land though enclosed by Mr Vardon as aforesaid, and on which Post is cut the following Words "Battersea Parish begins here, 1767" "Wandsworth Parish ends here, 1767" here we sung, with the Clerk and the Green Coat Boys the first verse of the 104th Psalm in which we were joined by Mr Vardon, who we then took our Leave of, went out of a Gateway of the Oak Fence, proceeded across the Common, leaving the Boundary Post on our Right Hand when we came to another Boundary Post, at the end of a Lane [G], known and called by the name of Tooting Lane ?4, and on the Common, which Post divides the Parishes of Wandsworth and Streatham where we sung the second Verse of the 104th Psalm, gave the Green Coat and Workhouse Boys and others Rowls, Cheese, and Strong Beer, as a Refreshment took some ourselves, broke down part of a Bank & Dry
[PB: Dosa Tooting Lane = the future Trinity Road, or the Ghost Road on the W-B boundary?]
[PB: 104th Psalm = https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+104&version=NKJV. Also https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Psalms-Chapter-104/. B beautiful - and very relevant to the landscape (includes refs to Cedars of Lebanon, etc etc.
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The Perambulation of Wandsworth Parish Boundaries in 1788
Hedge the enclosure of a small piece of Common [H] taken in by the Widow Bagley from thence we proceeded by Mrs Bagley's Grounds to a Bridge commonly called Drunken Bridge* in Garrett Lane [I], to a Boundary Post adjoining
Messrs Bell & Goss's Farm?, where we sung the first verse of the 84th Psalm. N.B. Here John Maxsted servant to Mr Church-Warden Rooke, with other Men and Boys were shoved into the Water that runs down the Lane.
(70 he continued in Historian no.72)
[35. Widow of Richard Bagley (died 1785), farmer tenant of Garrett Farm (later part of Springfield Estate).
[PB: Garrett Farm? Corris 1787 shows Garrett Farm's tenant was surnamed Christmas. He is farming mainly "Gower"-owned land along Burntwood Lane. Mary Bagley is tenant of much of the Spencer-owned land to the south and east — nearer Tooting Parish — including what became "Wandsworth Lodge" (which is perhaps where she lived and her farm buildings were located?). Did Spencer acquire the Gower land prior to selling the [entire?] area to Henry Perkins in 183? If so, when? Perkins in turn sold it within a couple of years [to? to build the Surrey Pauper Lunatic Asylum?] to . Was Springfield Farm, By Garrett Upper Green, used for the the whole area, with "Wandsworth Lodge" being farmed on a much smaller scale?]
[NB ICE-HOUSE-SPRINGFIELD-BURNTWOOD-SCHOOL-44_extracted_EXTRACT-THE-GOOD-ARTICLES-Bedside-2019 copy.pdf]
36. Crossing stream(s) at today's Aboyne Road junction with Garrett Lane.
37. West side of Garrett Lane (Tooting Graveney, later Martins Farm); Bell & Gosse were distillers of Battersea, the business relocated in Wandsworth by Bush & Co. about 1785.
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IF Charles Dickens had known of the WandsworthVestry account of its parishioners' 1788 perambulation before he wrote Pickwick Papers surely he might well have worked the goings-on into his novel. As well as an amusing (to today's reader) insight into an eighteenth century parochial day the Vestry Clerk's narration reveals how the rites and rules of the parish were imprinted in the collective mind of the generation of youngsters playing their part in the day's proceedings. High spirits and horseplay are evident but these were guaranteed ways for the route and markers of the perambulation to stay in the memory. A generation later greater literacy would have made such exercises redundant, which is just as well, for we know that being shoved into the polluted ditch that the stream at Drunken Bridge became in the 1800s would have been, as Sam Weller might have put it, "uncommon unvelcome".
The Perambulation of Wandsworth Parish
Boundaries in 1788 — Part 2
Second instalment of a two-part transcription of the Wandsworth Vestry Minutes of 7 May 1788 reporting the Perambulation that had taken place earlier in the month of parish boundaries, and checking of enclosures of common land. Church-warden Charles Rookes account is given with original spellings and punctuation.
Minor changes are denoted by enclosure in square brackets as are reference letters to sites on the sketch maps; inserted superscript numerals refer to editorial foot-notes giving additional information. (The Vestry Minutes are in the Archives of the Local History Library at Battersea and are printed here with permission. )
AT THE end of Part 1 (Wandsworth Historian no. 71, page 9) the perambulators were left at the edge of a stream in Garrett Lane at the boundary with Tooting parish. Some of the party had been shoved into the Water that runs down the Lane. Church-warden Rooke continues ........
FROM this place we proceeded across the River Wandell between Mr. Thos. Strongs Oil Mill! and Mr. Robert Coleman's Callicoe Grounds?, keeping along the Grounds and Fields to Mr.
Benjamin Patterson's Farm the East side of the Road? leading from Wandsworth South Field to Merton nearly opposite Sir Richard Hotham's at Merton Place*; here we cut two notches in a large Elm Tree close within Mr. Benjamin Patterson's Hedge, crossed the Road from Mr.
Patterson's Farm (here we were joined by Mr. Wm. Matthews, who keeps a Farm? in this Lane, with his youngest Daughter on one Horse, together with many more inhabitants of this Parish) to a Gate that was open and leading into Earl Spencers Park to an Oak Tree Boundary, where we were met by some of Earl Spencers servants, with two Casks of Strong Beer, and Bread and Cheese, when after singing the first verse of the 30th Psalm we with the Green Coat and Workhouse Boys Refreshed ourselves. Then, Bumping a few Men and Boys against the Boundary Oak, we proceeded along the Park to
[1. Off Garrett Lane (west end of todays Trewint Street). 2. North side of todays Riverside Road, Summerstown. 3. Today's Merton Road, Southfield. 4. Sir Richard Hotham of Merton would have been well known, as local J.P. He was also continually in conflict with Wimbledon and Wandsworth Vestries over the upkeep of Martin Road and Dunsford Lane. 5. Farm owned by the Duke of Bedford.]
and through a Gate in Earl Spencers Park Paling opposite a Boundary Post on Bigden, or Bignal Bridge on the High Road leading from Putney to Wimbledon and which is the Boundary Post that divides the Parishes of Wandsworth and Wimbledon, where we joined the Charity Children in singing the first verse of the 98th Psalm;
then proceeded alongside a Ditch adjoining a Mrs. Hoffman's Field (whose Town Residence is opposite the London Tavern — Bishopsgate Street within) to another Post at the West end of the said Ditch, and opposite the end of Mr. Hoffman's Hedge which Post was lately put down by the Parish of Wandsworth to divide the Common between Wandsworth and Wimbledon,
from which Post we proceeded in a direct Line Westerly, with Colours Flying, Drum Beating, and Music playing to a Large Stone Boundary Post, [7] which was put down by the mutual Consent and at the Joint Expence of the Parishes of Wandsworth and Putney on the 28th day of July, and in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty seven,
at which Stone Boundary Post we met with many others (the under mentioned gentlemen [8] viz. Roger Pettiward Esq., Percival Lewis Esq., Simeon Warner Esq., Tyson Chapman Esq., Mr. Wm. Hawes and Mr Geo. Smith, Church Wardens of Putney) which Gentlemen, Percival Lewis Esq. excepted, together with the Revd. Robt. Holt Butcher, Vicar, Mr. Jno. Nelson, Mr.Humphy Webb, Mr. Jno. Darvill, Mr. Thos. Woodward, and Mr. Chas. Rooke Churchwardens of Wandsworth, at the request of
[6. On a stream running east to join the Wandle (at opposite bank to west end of Groton Road). 7. On Wimbledon Common (to be seen there today). 8. Prominent residents of Putney.]
their respective Parishes attended the putting down of this, and other Posts hereafter mentioned, as Permanent Boundary Marks between the two Parishes, at the abovenamed Boundary the beforementioned Gentlemen with many other Parishioners, and the Charity Children of both Parishes joined in singing the 133rd Psalm, after which the Churchwardens and other Gentlemen shook Hands over the said Post wished Prosperity to the Parishes of Putney and Wandsworth, gave three Cheers and departed with Drums Beating, Music Playing and Colours flying,
the Putney people proceeded from the said Boundary Post Westerly, and Wandsworth People about North East [9] leaving four wooden Boundary Posts marked 1787 which Posts are rivetted with Iron Bolts to a like number of Posts PP 1787, to another Stone Boundary Post affixed in a place called and known by the name of Claybottom, laying between Sir William Fordyce's Hedge [10] and the High Road leading from Putney to Wimbledon which said Stone Boundary Post as well as that before mentioned are marked as follows Wandsworth Parish, Mr. Thomas Woodward, Mr. Charles Rooke Church-Wardens 1787, on the other side "Putney Parish — Mr. William Hawes, Mr. George Smith Church-Wardens 1787" with two Hands painted on each Stone Post a Finger pointing to each respective Parish, both which Stone Posts, and also the eight Wooden Posts were put down on the day and year before menioned, and by the mutual Consent and at the joint Expense of both Parishes before recited; It is to be remarked that in proceeding along the Common between the two Stone Boundary Posts we stopt at the the third Wooden Boundary Post and Refreshed ourselves the Green Coat and Workhouse Boys, with cold Ham, Tongue, Rowls, Cheese, etc. drank a Glass of Wine, some strong Beer while the drum beat and the Music played, when after Bumping the Beadle & a few other Men and
[MAP AND NOTES HERE - Sketch map of the western route (---) of the perambulation from the point (V , bottom right) reached by the party as ] , (cross Putney Heath towards Tibbets Corner. ] Bristol House: Sir William Fordyce, Physician. ]
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The point marked A (bottom left comer) coincides with A on the sketch map shown on the preced- ing page. From here the company kept to the boundary with Putney parish on their way to the Thames.
At point B (upper left) some perambulators took to the water in Mr. Greens boat and were conveyed to the farthest eastern parish limit, by the Distillery (C).
Henckells Mill Mr. Rooke does not detail the route then taken by this party but . probably they went via Slough 7 West Hill ( Lane to meet their fellows at the SOUTH FIELD foot of East Hill. The eastern
boundary had, of course, been traversed earlier that day as des- cribed in Part 1.
The rest of their journey was more concerned with rest- oration of parish rights of way than with boundaries, and led to the brushes with mill-owners Scale: approx. 4 in. : 1 mile and others as described in the main text.
NORTH FIELD
High Street
Shepleys Soa Mill
RIVER WANDLE
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Boys gave three Cheers and proceeded as before stated to the Stone Boundary Post in Claybottom from thence some of the Perambulators went up to the new Enclosure made by the Rt. Honble Earl Spencer off the Common belonging to the Parish adjoining the Road leading to Wimbledon took down two pales (close to a Gate erected and kept Lockd) for the purpose of maintaining a right to an Ancient Foot Path through the Park of the said Earl Spencer to Wimbledon, which his Lordship shut up on making the said Enclosure, sent the Green Coat and Workhouse Boys through gave three Cheers & then returned to the Stone Post in Clay Bottom, proceeded through an Opening in Sr. William Fordyce's Hedge and nearly opposite the said Stone Post crossed the Ground to another Wooden Boundary Post in the said Ground and a Gravel Walk that leads to the House, which Gravel Walk leads from a Gate that opens into the Road that leads from Putney to Wimbledon, from which Post we proceeded across the said Gravel Walk and through a part of the Garden, made a passage through the Hedge into a Road that leads from the London high Road (nearly opposite Sir Samuel Hannay's) towards Roehampton.
Here the Perambulators divided, part of them crossed the said Road, to an opening made in Mr. Wood's Oak Paling, where they went thro into Mr. Woods Grounds (which Grounds includes the Quells [12]) continued on through the said Ground and along a Gravel Walk, & near the Oak Paling to the North East corner of the said Ground, to another opening in the said Paling, into the Road that leads from the corner of Mrs.
Woods House in Putney to Wandsworth, commonly called the Richmond Road, crossed the said Road, into another Field of Mrs. Woods, by taking down a few Pales, which Fences the said Field from the Road, passed down the side of the Hedge in the said Field, to the Bottom of Mr. Frampton's Garden, took down some of the Paling of the said Garden, went through the said Garden, Grounds, and Part of the House, to the end of a Passage where they took down some Paling, and came into the lower Road leading from Putney to Wandsworth.
11 West Hill House (Wandsworth Historian, 60, 6 — 19). Sir Samuel Hannay, Drug Merchant and Chemist; MP.
12 Springs in fields part of the Common Field system (Austins
Croft).
The other part of the Perambulators proceeded up the aforesaid Road which leads to Roehampton, into the London high Road, kept on the London Road, to a Gate which leads into the South Fields, to the Eastward of Sr. Saml.
Hannay's Premises, went into the said Field, and laid open two or three different enclosed Encroachments made by the said Sr. Saml.
Hannay, proceeded along the said Field, close within the Paling, to two Inclosures made by Mr.
Oxley in the said Field, one of which is Pallisado'ed in for a Garden, opend both of the said Inclosures by taking down some Rails and part of the Pallisadoes sent some Men and Boys through, went out Horse and Foot at the Westermost end of Mr. Oxley's House, through a passage and Gateway which Gateway stands on, and which Passage is, Lammas Land as 1s likewise the Inclosures of Sr. Saml. Hannay's and Mr. Oxley's as before mentioned, proceeded across the London high Road, round the Front of Mr. Hurst's House to the Parish Gate, which we went through to another Inclosure at the back of the said Mr. Hurst's House, which Inclosure belonged to the aforesaid Mr. Oxley & which they opened and went through, from this they went up the Road!> leading to Richmond to a Gateway on the Right Hand of the said Road and which leads down Putney Field to several Inclosed Encroachments made by Mr. William Layton, which were opened by taking down several Rails, likewise opened a small Inclosure at the East end of Mr. Frampton's House by taking down part of the Stone work and Iron Rails, turned round the corner of Mr. Frampton's House, where both Parties of the Perambulators joined, and sung the 100th. Psalm under a Boundary stone Mark'd W<>P at the West end of a Brick Building now in the occupation of Mr.
William Layton, and opposite to the before mentioned Mr. Frampton's — and which Boundary Mark divides the Panshes of Putney and Wandsworth, some of the Perambulators passed down by the end of the said Building, along Putney Gutter'* to the Water side, sent from thence some of the Green Coat Boys and others, in Mr. John Green's Boat!> to extreme end of the
13 Upper Richmond Road.
Course of a stream running northwards down to Thames.
John Green, waterman:; Green family of watermen in Battersea and Wandsworth since 1600s.
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East Boundary the corner of Mr. Baynes House below Messrs. Bush & Cos. Distillery the other part of the Perambulators proceeded along by the Waterside in Putney Field to Point Pleasant, from thence up to a piece of Land Inclosed by John Wilmot Esqr. Partly by an Oak Paling, the rest by an Hah!Hah!, took down three or four of Oak Pales, sent the Green Coat Boys in who went up the Gravel Walk, and returned, leaving the Pales we took down within side the said Grounds, proceeded next to an Inclosure belonging to Mr.
John Halhead, and as it was a Trespass on the Lammas Land as well as all the rest of the beforementioned Inclosures, we took down a Rail or two and went through, and passed back along Putney Field into the Road by the Queens Head Public House! where we Marshalled the Men & Boys two by two, who preceded by Drum beating, Music playing, and Colours flying, were followed by the Minister, Church-Wardens, Sidesmen and Gentlemen on Horseback, in like manner two by two up Love Lane, & through the Town to the end of Slough Lane next Mr. John Hall's a Wheelwright!, when we turned to the Right and proceeded back down the Town, and passed up Garrett Lane to Mr. Henckell's Iron Mill went across the Bridge over the River to a Gate on the other side leading into the Common Fields, and which Gate was Erected by the said Mr. James Henckell /in Lieu of a Five Barr'd Gate and a Style which was there before.*/ [*This Interlineation made by my consent, Charles Rooke. |
Some of the People on Foot with the Green Coat Boys went through and returned,. Mr.
Church-Warden Rooke on returning met Mr.
Henckell, who seemed offended at Mr. Rooke's going on the Premises with a Horse, when the Revd. Mr. Butcher joined them, when some little Altercation passed, Mr. Henckell saying he wished us to remember he had objected against the Horse coming on the Premises; thinking it an improper time to confer on this Business we left Mr. Henckell and returned down Garrett Lane to Mr. Shepley's Mill, as far as the River side, where an Old Bridge stood, leading into the Rises!, where Edward Dunselow on wading
16 North end of Love Lane (Putney Bridge Road).
17 North side of East Hull.
Meadows on the east side of the Wandle.
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through the River, lost one of his Shoes & Buckle, and a New pair were ordered him in their stead, at the same time as Mr. Thomas Green, one of his Majesty's Watermen, was going to cross a Bridge erected at the Tail of the Mill by Mr. George Shepley, which likewise leads into the Rises, Mr. Richard Shepley caught hold of the Flap of Mr. Thos. Green's Coat, pulled him back, saying that that was his Uncle's Freehold, and he should not pass into the Rises that way; when Mr. Richard Shepley was told, that if that was the Case his Uncle must build another Bridge, on and where the old one stood;
on this we left Mr. Shepley proceeded down Garrett Lane up the Town!? to the Bridge, here part of the Perambulators with the Drum, Fife, & Colours were sent down an Antient Walk? by the Premises of | Mr. Barchard?!, and to perambulate round by Mrs. Tealings Mill;
— It is to be observed that the said Foot Path had been stopped up by the late Mr. Peter Barchard & Mrs. Tealing's with the Consent of Vestry, but had been proved prejudicial to several of the Inhabitants and frequent Complaints had been made thereof it was therefore thought necessary in the Perambulation to keep up and protect the Right of the Parish to the same whenever required but it so happened, that on some of the Perambulators removing the Gate put up by Mrs. Tealing (the one put up by Mr. Peter Barchard having been removed for the temporary convenience of carrying in Dung &c into Mr. John Barchard's Garden) that Mr. John May, Gardener to the said Mr. Barchard opened the Gate of Mr. Barchard's Garden & which adjoined the said Foot Path, and coming out, very imprudently attempted to throw one or two of the Persons (who were removing Mrs. Tealing's Gate) into the River.
On which some of the Perambulators resented such indecent Behaviour, and drove the said Mr. John May into his Master's Garden, when Mr. Thomas Edmonds came up & by whose interference prevented any further Discipline being given to the said Mr. John May for his very improper Conduct. N.B.
This was the only Fray during the whole of the
19 High Street.
OA footpath on the east bank of the Wandle north of the bridge.
2] Barchard family, scarlet dyers on this site since 1764.
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Perambulation and which would not have the said premises rented by the said Mr. Henry happened had not the said Mr. May been so Gardiner, but on the Perambulators passing Mr.
Officious. oe George Milne, Clerk to the said Mr. Gardiner, he
From Mrs. Tealing's Mill we went up the Collared one or more of them, the said Plain and Town into a place called Dutch Yard22, Perambulators, and in his Master Mr. Henry at the End of which Mr. Henry Gardiner?? had Gardiner's name threatened them with the said erected a lofty Fence and stoppd a Footpath Mr. Henry Gardiner's displeasure and Resentment which time Immemorial had been open as a Free as long as they lived.
Passage into the South Field, and a Way to the [We] came down the South Field Road River, /for the purpose of dipping Water,/* into the Town with Drum beating, Music playing (*This Interlineation made by my consent. & Colours displayed, proceeded to Mr. Thomas Charles Rooke.] which had always been made Newman's The King's Arms [24] where the use of by the Parishioners as a Public Way Company Dined, after which many Loyal Toasts Opened the Gate, Benym. Hawkins, Master of the were given, which being concluded, the Parish of Free School with the Green Coat & Workhouse Wandsworth & the Rights thereof with an Boys, accompanied by Mr. Jas. Tompkins who Unanimous Determination to support the same officiates as Parish Clerk & a few other was drank with three times three, and shortly Parishioners went in to Perambulate the said after eleven o'Clock in the Evening the whole Antient Foot Path into South Field Road and that Company returned Home in the utmost good there might be as little damage as possible done Order.
to the said Premises the rest of the Company kept Grateful acknowledgement is made of the editorial help on the outside, during the Perambulation through with the additional notes and Figures given by Society Sanne members Rita Ensing and Dorian Gerhold.
22 South side of High Street, west of bridge.
23 Calico printer. 24 High Street, west of the Church.
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Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
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Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
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Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
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Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
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Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
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Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
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At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
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They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
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Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
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He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.
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They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
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By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
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He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
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He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
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And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
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The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;
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Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
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The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
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He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
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Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
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The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
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The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
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3Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
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O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
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So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
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There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
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These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
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That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
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Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
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Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
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The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
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He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
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I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
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My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
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Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
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