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1841 Census: Parish of Wandsworth

Enumeration District Descriptions

HO 107/1069 — Parish of Wandsworth, Surrey

This page presents transcriptions of the enumerators’ schedule descriptions for all sixteen Enumeration Districts in the Parish of Wandsworth, as recorded in the 1841 census. These preamble pages describe the geographical boundaries of each district, written by the individual enumerator before the enumeration began. Census night was 6 June 1841.

The descriptions have been transcribed from the original images. Uncertain readings are marked (?). Where images are available they appear alongside the transcription; others will be added in due course. For the detailed household returns for ED 10 (Wandsworth East Common, Garratt Green), see the separate transcription page.

County: Surrey  (Parliamentary Division: East Surrey)

Hundred: Brixton

Parish: Wandsworth (part of)

Superintendent Registrar’s District: Wandsworth & Clapham

Registrar’s District: Wandsworth

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

TNA Piece References: HO 107/1069/1, 1069/2, 1069/3, 1069/4

Enumeration Districts — Index

Enumeration District 1

HO 107/1069/1 — Enumerator: L. J. Upcher

1841 census: Wandsworth ED1 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED1 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: L. J. Upcher

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: High Street north from Christmas’s Old House to South Street with Junction Roads leading therefrom viz. Stockwell’s, Martin’s, King’s Arms & Dawdy’s.

Enumeration District 2

HO 107/1069/1 — Enumerator: John Nugent

1841 census: Wandsworth ED2 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED2 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: John Nugent

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: High Street South from Down Lodge to the house of Mr R. Thatcher with Junction Roads leading therefrom viz. Eades, Dutch Yard, Newton’s, Simson’s Alley and Fields Court.

Dutch Yard — a possible trace of the Huguenot and Dutch Protestant community known to have settled in Wandsworth in the late 17th century. Worth investigating further.

Enumeration District 3

HO 107/1069/1 — Enumerator: George Sayers

1841 census: Wandsworth ED3 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED3 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: George Sayers

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: High Street South from the house of Mr W. Field to the house of the late Charles King with Junction Roads leading therefrom viz. Denis Chapel Yard, James’s Yard, Haydon’s and James’s Place.

Enumeration District 4

HO 107/1069/1 — Enumerator: not yet captured

1841 census: Wandsworth ED4 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED4 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: not yet captured

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: East Street, Wandsworth West Common, St Ann’s Hill and Allfarthing Lane.

Enumeration District 5

HO 107/1069/2 — Enumerator: William Bartley Linfield

1841 census: Wandsworth ED5 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED5 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: William Bartley Linfield

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: West Hill to Wimbledon Park. Three Lodges in Wimbledon Park. South Fields and Back Hill.

Wimbledon Park in 1841 was Earl Spencer’s private deer park — the same Spencer family who would become the principal antagonist of the campaign to save Wandsworth Common from enclosure in the 1860s and 70s. The Three Lodges were accommodation for park staff.

Enumeration District 6

HO 107/1069/2 — Enumerator: Robert Thomas Green

1841 census: Wandsworth ED6 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED6 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: Robert Thomas Green

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: Lees Lane, Elm Place, Hollis Place and North Fields.

Enumeration District 7

HO 107/1069/2 — Enumerator: Edward Adams

1841 census: Wandsworth ED7 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED7 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: Edward Adams

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: Point Pleasant.

Point Pleasant is a riverside street running along the Thames below Wandsworth town. The Cartwright family of Point Pleasant feature in a newspaper cutting from 1846 concerning body-snatching on the Common.

Enumeration District 8

HO 107/1069/2 — Enumerator: not yet captured

1841 census: Wandsworth ED8 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED8 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: not yet captured

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: Church Row, South side of the Plain, Bell Lane, North side of the Plain, North side of Frogmore, South side of Frogmore from the corner of Martin’s Low Lane to Martin’s Buildings all inclusive.

Enumeration District 9

HO 107/1069/3 — Enumerator: Francis Parsons

1841 census: Wandsworth ED9 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED9 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: Francis Parsons

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: South side of Frogmore from the corner of Martin’s Buildings, Snuff Court, Armoury Yard, West side of the Plain and Church Passage.

Snuff Court and Armoury Yard are vanished Wandsworth place-names which can now be located for the first time through this ED boundary. Francis Parsons may be a family connection to the Parsons who appeared among those paraded at the 1840s fence-breaking demonstrations on Wandsworth Common.

Enumeration District 10

HO 107/1069/3 — Enumerator: W. H. Barsel

1841 census: Wandsworth ED10 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED10 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: W. H. Barsel

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: Wandsworth East Common as far as the house of W. McMillan Esq., Bramblewood Lane, Garratt, Garratt Green and Sumner Town.

A full transcription of the household returns for this district is available on the ED 10 detail page. This district includes Garratt Green, where the Neal and Rough families — market gardeners closely connected with the Common — are recorded in some numbers.

Enumeration District 11

HO 107/1069/3 — Enumerator: Jo. Townshend

1841 census: Wandsworth ED11 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED11 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: Jo. Townshend

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: Dunt’s Hill and Garratt.

Dunt’s Hill is a medieval manor name, surviving in 1841 as an ED boundary description. It is now reduced to a single short road near the River Wandle.

Enumeration District 12

HO 107/1069/3 — Enumerator: not yet captured

1841 census: Wandsworth ED12 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED12 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: not yet captured

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: Eton Place, West side of Garratt Lane to the house of Mr Barker, South side of St Ann’s Lane, South side of the Common to the houses of Mr J. & W. Pollens and Maltspits.

Maltspits is an ancient place-name referring to malting pits associated with the brewing industry along the Wandle. It does not appear to survive in any modern street name.

Enumeration District 13

HO 107/1069/4 — Enumerator: James Bricknow(?)

1841 census: Wandsworth ED13 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED13 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: James Bricknow(?)

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: North side of Garratt Lane, Allfarthing Manor and North side of St Ann’s Lane.

Allfarthing Manor was one of the two ancient manors of Wandsworth (the other being Wandsworth Manor itself). Its appearance here as a living place-name in 1841 is a primary source of real significance — the manor persisting in local consciousness long after its legal dissolution.

Enumeration District 14

HO 107/1069/4 — Enumerator: John Hinderson

1841 census: Wandsworth ED14 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED14 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: John Hinderson

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: North Street to the house of Mrs Daniells, corner of Swing Bridge, Albert Place, Victoria Place, Ram Lane and Square and Bridge Field Place.

Ram Lane was the address of the Ram Brewery, one of the oldest continuously operating breweries in England. Albert Place and Victoria Place are newly named at this date — post-1837 nomenclature honouring the new monarch.

Enumeration District 15

HO 107/1069/4 — Enumerator: William Chatting

1841 census: Wandsworth ED15 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED15 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: William Chatting

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: King’s Head Court & Yard, Swing Bridge to the Lower Mills, Spencer’s Court, North Street from the corner of Swing Bridge, Bridge Fields, Vaughan’s Cottages, Apothecaries Row and Thames Bank East and part of [illegible].

Spencer’s Court on the Wandsworth riverside may connect with the Spencer family whose Wimbledon Park estate made them the dominant landowner in the area, and who became opponents of the Common preservation movement in the 1860s–70s.

Enumeration District 16

HO 107/1069/4 — Enumerator: G. Phillips

1841 census: Wandsworth ED16 boundary description, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Wandsworth ED16 boundary description. (Click to enlarge.)

Enumerator: G. Phillips

Registrar: Whitfield Foster

Superintendent Registrar: Benjamin Field

Description: Dale Place, from Apothecaries Row, Thames Bank from the White Horse Public House to the Ship Public House, Jones Row to the house of Mr J. Watney, Wandsworth Distillery, Vaughan’s Cottages [and continues — right edge cut off].

Mr J. Watney on Thames Bank in 1841 is almost certainly a member of the Watney brewing family, who had interests in the Wandsworth area long before their brewery consolidation later in the century.

Public Institution

HO 107/1069/4

1841 census: Surrey County Pauper Lunatic Asylum, HO 107/1069

HO 107/1069: Surrey County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (Springfield), Wandsworth. Newly opened 1841. (Click to enlarge.)

Institution: Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, Parish of Wandsworth

The Surrey County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (now Springfield University Hospital, Glenburnie Road) was newly built and opened in 1841, the very year of this census. It was one of the first purpose-built county asylums in England, situated on Garratt Lane.

Transcriptions made June 2026 from original images held by The National Archives (HO 107/1069). © historyofwandsworthcommon.org