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Corris’s Map of Wandsworth in 1787
The Book of Reference

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Dorian Gerhold, John Corris’s Map of Wandswo rth in 1787 (Wandsworth Historical Society, Wandsworth Paper 11, 2002), August 2026.

Contents

– Introduction
– Wandsworth in 1787
– Landownership in Wandsworth
– The Book of Reference
– Book of Reference: the Wandsworth Inclosures, 1787
– Search by Name
– Roads, Water, Open Fields, Commons & Parish Totals
– Notes on the Plots
– Further Reading
– Notes & References

Introduction

John Corris’s map of Wandsworth in 1787 is the earliest detailed map showing the whole parish of Wandsworth, though the level of detail varies considerably across the parish. It was drawn as part of an attempt by George, second Earl Spencer (who had succeeded his father in 1783) to clarify his holdings and rights in the area. Maps were drawn not only of Wandsworth but also of Battersea and Putney (see our companion transcription of Corris’s Battersea Book of Reference), the Putney map including in addition parts of Wimbledon and East Sheen. The manorial situation was exceptionally complicated in Wandsworth parish, where there were four manors, of which in 1787 Earl Spencer owned only one — Battersea and Wandsworth manor (not until later did he acquire Downe and Allfarthing manors).

This accounts for the most peculiar aspect of the map: many tiny parcels of land are carefully marked, whereas elsewhere holdings belonging to numerous different people are lumped together without distinguishing the individual plots. The reason was that the former were owned by the Earl and the latter were not. The map does however seem to show all the buildings, albeit without much detail in the most heavily built-up area.

Little is recorded about John Corris himself, though he is known to have drawn estate or parish maps in 17 counties from 1777 to 1793. The map formed part of the archive of Earl Spencer at Althorp, Northamptonshire, until 1986. The archive was then sold and split up, the maps and family papers going to the British Library and the manorial and other documents relating to property (including the books of reference to Corris’s maps) to Northamptonshire Record Office. Thus Corris’s maps and his books of reference are now in different places.

[This transcription follows Dorian Gerhold’s 2002 study for the Wandsworth Historical Society, John Corris’s Map of Wandsworth in 1787 (Wandsworth Paper 11), reproduced here with attribution. The raw 1787 book-of-reference data is a primary source in the public domain; Gerhold’s introduction and his numbered notes on individual plots below are his own original research and remain his copyright — please cite the Wandsworth Historical Society and Gerhold’s paper if quoting from them elsewhere.]

Wandsworth in 1787

Wandsworth was a substantial town of about 4,500 people in 1787, and had more than doubled in size since the beginning of the century. Dwellings were still concentrated in the old village centre, especially the High Street and The Plain, but had spread along the roads, including the north end of Garratt Lane, West Hill and East Hill, and along the Thames east of the Wandle. The latter area was known as Thames Bank or Bankside and later as Waterside. The town was a mixture of tradesmen’s houses, alleys of tenements, farmhouses, industrial premises and a few substantial houses. The central point in the parish was effectively the bridge carrying the High Street over the Wandle: in rate and tax lists the parish was split into four ‘quarters’, divided by the London road (East Hill, High Street, West Hill) and the Wandle.

There were many different ways of earning a living in Wandsworth. The Wandle’s mills and other industries using its water, such as dyeing and bleaching, were flourishing; in fact they were probably at or near their peak. The five mills or groups of mills included corn mills, oil mills, an iron mill, a white lead mill and a snuff mill. Corris also shows dyeing works, bleaching grounds, calico-printing works, a chemical works, malthouses, a brewery and a distillery. The range of industries was probably matched by few parishes in England.

Many inhabitants, especially those in Waterside, found employment on the river, as watermen or fishermen. Corris marks a landing place at the end of Jews Row; there were not yet any bridges across the Thames between Putney and Battersea. In 1801 the Curate noted that there were ‘about 100 persons fishermen, & their apprentices, who were at this time down the river, far below Bridge, & who perhaps do not return home above once in a month or six weeks’. Others worked on the land, some as market gardeners; Lysons estimated in 1792 that there were 218 acres occupied by market gardeners. However, those working the land were not particularly numerous: in 1801 there were 142 employed as gardeners or farmers, whereas there were 818 manufacturers, tradesmen, craftsmen, watermen and fishermen. Employment was also provided by the more substantial houses, occupied by merchants, lawyers and some of Wandsworth’s industrial proprietors, though such houses were much fewer than in nearby Putney, Roehampton and Clapham. Several of them accommodated schools in 1787.

Wandsworth was a large parish, and there was a strong contrast between the north of the parish and the much more sparsely populated south. The only buildings in the south were a few isolated farms, a mill and the hamlet of Garratt, around the Leather Bottle. Another aspect of the contrast was between the open fields of the north and the enclosed fields of the south.

There were three open fields — Bridge Field, North Field and South Field, though Austins Croft had formerly been regarded as a separate field. South Field was the largest, and was divided in two by the Great Baulk, the line of which is now followed by Granville Road. The open fields were divided into shots or furlongs, which were the units of cultivation, and these shots were themselves divided into individual strips: 606 of these were listed in 1755 (including strips in the meadows), covering 625 acres and requiring 552 ‘landmarks’. The shots in 1787 were as follows: in Bridge Field, Windmill Shot, Swandon Shot and Hill Shot; in North Field, Thames Shot, Middle Shot, Hermitage Shot (named after a medieval hermitage), Rough Shot, Dobson’s Corner, Austins Croft and a shot north of Lady Close; in South Field, Cross Road Shot, Lome Pit Shot, Millers Oak Shot, Upper Green Street Shot, Bird and Bush Shot, Gravel Shot, Old Man’s Well Shot, Lower Green Street Shot, Close Shot, Gorey Shot, Lone Corner, Clay Pit Shot, Middle Shot, Merton Way Shot, South Meadow Shot and Milking Place. Many of these names were fairly recent ones.

Several fields adjoining Garratt Lane were divided into strips but were apparently not part of the open field system and available for common grazing. Common grazing rights did however exist in some of the meadows: Frying Pan Mead and Shermendine (formerly Sheringdale) near the Thames and South Meadow, all of which were divided into strips, and Upper and Lower Rise, which were not. Corris clearly followed the convention of indicating hedged, fenced or walled boundaries by unbroken lines and open boundaries by broken lines. (The promise in Corris’s ‘Explanation’ that the open fields are coloured orange, green and yellow is not fulfilled, though parts of North Field are shaded green for no obvious reason.)

Cross Road Shot, at the bottom of West Hill, suggests the practice of ploughing across a road or path and reinstating it afterwards, though, if so, the unbroken lines bordering West Hill on the map indicate that this had ceased by 1787. The less likely possibility is that this part of West Hill had been moved. Ploughing across the road was apparently still happening in Thames Shot, astride what is now Putney Bridge Road (then little more than a track); here the strips continued across the road and the broken lines indicate an absence of fencing or hedging.

The parish vestry took upon itself the task of defending parishioners’ rights in the open fields (not legally any of its business) in 1737. However, in the 1780s it began giving permission for enclosures on payment of annual rent to the parish (again without legal authority); this seems to have affected Bridge Field particularly. Between 1755 and 1787 the acreage of open fields and meadows fell from 625 to 475. During the parish perambulation of 1788, many of the enclosures shown on Corris’s map had a few pales taken from their fences (e.g. Nos. 9–10, 41, 76, 157, 177–9, 185, 192a, 209 and 235), apparently to make a point rather than as a serious attempt to remove them. Plans to enclose all the open fields failed in 1782, 1800 and 1828, and the strips appear to have been enclosed piecemeal in the 1840s and 1850s.

Most of the southern part of the parish had apparently never formed open fields; instead it consisted of enclosed fields, most of which had probably been created directly from woodland (some, adjoining Burntwood Lane, as recently as the seventeenth century). Scarcely any woodland remained in 1787, except in Earl Spencer’s Wimbledon Park. The park occupied the whole of the south-west part of the parish, its Wandsworth section totalling 416 acres. Much of it had been enclosed from the common in the 1750s and in or about 1782; other parts had formerly been closes of Dunsford and Downe manors. In the 1760s the park was landscaped by Capability Brown. It was sold by the Spencers in the mid-1840s and was subsequently split up and built on.

As for the commons, the map shows several enclosures which had significantly reduced the extent of Wandsworth’s West Common (now part of Wimbledon Common) — Nos. 1 to 5 and at least part of No. 6 north of West Hill and a large part of Wimbledon Park, including the whole area labelled ‘Game Cover’. Of 317 acres before the 1750s, only 72 were left in 1787. Near where the windmill now stands Corris shows a brick kiln. Wandsworth’s other commons had not been much eroded by 1787. There were only a few minor enclosures on the East Common (part of what is now called Wandsworth Common). As Corris indicates, Allfarthing manor had its own separate area here, known as Allfarthing Piece or Porter’s Sheep Walk. This was enclosed in about 1802 and later built on; it now forms the so-called ‘toast-rack’ area. Further south Corris shows Garratt Great Green, which has survived, and Garratt Little Green, which vanished in the nineteenth century (the Prince of Wales pub now stands on part of it). The status of Hogmore Green, north of Frogmore, was in dispute in 1787, as discussed in the notes below.

The Wandle occupied a larger area than it does today, particularly around its mouth, where the area marked as an osier ground was not drained and built on until about 1912–20. A large subsidiary channel (known in the 1780s as ‘the old river’ and possibly an earlier course from before the mills were constructed) meandered across what is now King George’s Park; what remained of it was filled in in 1967–8. Further south there was a large meander reaching almost as far west as Merton Road; a new course cut off this meander in about 1800. There was much valuable meadow land along the Wandle. In 1801 it was noted that the meadow called Shermendine was never manured but still produced three or four good crops a year. Several areas at the Wandle mouth and at Duntshill Mead grew osiers (willow shoots), used mainly for basket-making. There were no roads across the Wandle south of the town until Plough Lane in Wimbledon parish, though there were at least two footbridges (near the iron mill and Upper Mills, the latter giving access only to the meadows known as the Rises).

The road network of 1787 is largely recognisable as the basis of today’s, though Armoury Way, Wandsworth Bridge and Trinity Road between the bridge and North Side did not yet exist. The ‘Foot Road from Wimbledon to Wandsworth’ across Wimbledon Park survives as Wimbledon Park Road. West Hill, the High Street and East Hill, part of the road from London to Portsmouth, had been turnpiked in 1718. Wandsworth vestry maintained Garratt Lane, Upper Richmond Road and some other roads, but was gradually being forced by legal action to do more, contrary to its principle of maintaining only one road to each place. It had to take responsibility in 1776 for what is now Merton Road south of ‘Southfield Gate’ and in 1777 for York Road (described in 1788 as ‘the summer road from Wandsworth to Battersea’); Putney Bridge Road west of the Queen Adelaide pub followed only in 1820.

The boundary between Wandsworth and Putney had been in dispute for more than a century, and ‘The old line’ shown on the map was a highly ambitious claim by Wandsworth. Corris marks the line agreed in 1787, which has been the boundary ever since. Near the present windmill the point where, following the agreement, Wandsworth, Putney and Wimbledon parishes met was marked by a stone, which can still be seen. Those perambulating the Wandsworth and Putney boundaries met there in 1788 and sang the 133rd psalm, ‘after which the churchwardens and other gentlemen shook hands over the said [stone] post, wished prosperity to the parishes of Putney and Wandsworth, gave three cheers and departed with drums beating, music playing and colours flying’.

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Landownership in Wandsworth

Landownership in Wandsworth was complicated. It was not just that much of the land was split up into very small parcels, but also that there were four intermixed manors each with several different types of tenure.

Within each manor there could be land in the lord of the manor’s own hands (e.g. Wimbledon Park), land held from the lord of the manor by lease, and copyhold land (held ‘by copy of court roll’). The latter could be bought and sold but was subject to the lord of the manor in certain ways (chiefly the payment of a fine on purchasing it). Copyholders are recorded in the book of reference as owners. There were also scattered holdings forming an estate belonging to the Archbishops of York. As it happened, Earl Spencer held most of this land by a long lease from the Archbishop, and is recorded in the book of reference as its owner. Lands held on lease from Earl Spencer are indicated on the map by edging in red and by buildings being coloured red or pink, and are listed in the book of reference as Earl Spencer’s freeholds. These totalled 778 acres in 1787, including the park and 150 acres in the open fields. Some properties had been enfranchised (i.e. converted from copyhold to freehold) and no longer had any connection with a manor. Non-Spencer freeholds (belonging to other manorial lords or separated from any manor) are edged in blue, with buildings coloured blue, though the edging appears not to have been done consistently.

The manors were not distinct and contiguous blocks of land. For example, Allfarthing manor appears on the map to be a single block of land, but it also included property along the Wandle, in the town and in the open fields. Much of Dunsford manor had come into Earl Spencer’s hands and had been enclosed in his park, but many scattered parcels remained elsewhere, again including strips in the open fields. Many parts of the non-Spencer manors can be identified in the book of reference, where (if leased) they are the property of Pearce Porter (Allfarthing manor), the Duke of Bedford (Downe manor) or Lord Midleton (Dunsford manor). Some copyhold land is also identified, by adding after the proprietor’s name such words as ‘in Lord Middleton’s manor’.

Wandsworth landholders needing a substantial block of land usually had to assemble their holding from several different owners on different tenures, as can be seen in the book of reference (e.g. Nos. 198 to 206). Usually obtaining what one wanted, for example to build a large house with a spacious garden, involved purchasing one or more groups of scattered holdings, and it could be hard to keep track of these, especially in the open fields or around the mouth of the Wandle, where land might even be washed away. It was difficult even for the lords of the manors and their stewards to sort out who owned what, especially where new developments had obscured old boundaries; hence the need for Corris’s map.

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The Book of Reference

The book of reference has two sections. One relates to the main series of black numbers on the map and is headed ‘Wandsworth inclosures’. It is set out in full below. The other (of which only the totals are set out here) deals with the open fields and the commons, and refers to the red numbers on the map and to black numbers within each furlong or shot in the open fields.

In the table below, punctuation and capitalisation have been standardised, and obvious abbreviations have been expanded. ‘Do’ (ditto) sometimes relates to only part of the previous entry, and occasionally depends on the precise layout of the original text; here it is used only where the entire contents of the previous entry (except anything in square brackets) are repeated; otherwise the relevant words are set out again.

Proprietors: This column is blank for nine plots, probably in some cases because the information was complicated (e.g. No. 144) and was not important to Earl Spencer. A separate column in the book of reference contains the letters F, B and C but is often blank; these stand for freehold, bishophold (i.e. held from the Archbishop of York) and copyhold, and are normally given only for Earl Spencer’s land (though three other plots also have F or C). All Earl Spencer’s land has F against it except where B or C is given in the table below in square brackets (and except No. 119 where no letter is given).

Tenants: This information was recorded consistently only for plots owned by Earl Spencer, and otherwise just occasionally (usually where his tenants also held neighbouring land from other owners).

Names of the parcels: Some entries end with a number under the heading ‘A’. It clearly indicates a customary reckoning of the number of acres, invariably exceeding the exact acreage. These figures are included in square brackets. Corris also provided a column in which the letters A, P and M appear, evidently indicating arable, pasture and meadow, but he rarely filled in this column. The few examples are included here in square brackets.

Area: The three figures are acres, roods and perches. There were 40 perches to a rood and four roods to an acre.

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Book of Reference: the Wandsworth Inclosures, 1787

Asterisks (*) in the ‘Names of the parcels’ column, and plot numbers shown as links, indicate that Gerhold gives a note on that plot — see Notes on the Plots below.

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Search by Name

Use the search box below to find any proprietor or tenant named in the Book of Reference table above.

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Roads, Water, Open Fields, Commons & Parish Totals

The book of reference also records the acreage of the roads and watercourses running through the inclosures, then gives the totals for the whole parish — the Wandsworth inclosures listed above, the open fields (still farmed in unenclosed strips in 1787), and the commons.

[A schematic map on p.20 of Gerhold’s paper shows the area covered by Corris’s map, with unbroken lines marking roads shown on the map which still exist today (Putney Bridge Road, Upper Richmond Road, West Hill, High Street, The Plain, Frogmore, York Road, Fairfield Street, East Hill, North Side, Wimbledon Park Road, Merton Road, Garratt Lane, Allfarthing Lane, Trinity Road, Burntwood Lane), dotted lines marking roads not on the map because they did not yet exist (including Parkside), and a dashed line for the parish boundary.]

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Notes on the Plots

The numbers below are those used on Corris’s map and in the table above (an asterisk marks a plot with a note). These notes are Dorian Gerhold’s own research, drawing on manorial surveys, fire insurance policies, vestry minutes, land tax records and other sources held chiefly at Northamptonshire Record Office and in the Wandsworth Local History Collection — see Notes & References for his source abbreviations and full citations.

1. Nos. 1 to 5 and at least part of No. 6 were formerly part of the Common. Sir William Fordyce, a London surgeon, acquired a 99-year lease of Nos. 1 to 5 (together with adjoining plots in Putney parish marked ’a’ and ’b’) from Earl Spencer in 1764, and the lease recorded that he had agreed to build a substantial house here. Fordyce’s estate was known as Claybottom (a name pre-dating his enclosure), and was one of the most valuable in the parish, rated at £150 a year. In 1790 Fordyce’s successor here, Philip de Visme, sought permission to stop up the road behind his house (evidently the present Putney Heath Lane), claiming it was ’the constant resort of bad women thither and who naturally attract men of the said cast’. ↑ table

6. This house (opposite the present Sutherland Grove) stood on land described in 1672 as ’lately enclosed’ from the Common. It was built in about the 1760s, and was ’greatly enlarged and improved’ by Mr Goodwin (not ’Mrs’ as in the book of reference). It was rated at £70 a year, and was known in the 1790s as West Hill House, and later as the Clock House. It was demolished in the 1880s. The curious shape on the eastern part of its grounds was a pond, which probably originated as the loam pit which gave its name to the adjacent shot. By the 1740s it was a fish pond and was also used for watering the horses of travellers on West Hill. ↑ table

15. This pub, in what is now Putney Bridge Road, is first recorded in 1704, as the King’s Head. It was re-named the Queen’s Head by 1719, and finally the Queen Adelaide in about 1830 (after William IV’s Queen). It has since been rebuilt. ↑ table

18. Nos. 18 and 19 had been the frying pan works, established in or about 1634 employing Dutch or Flemish workmen and using iron already processed at the iron mill in Wimbledon parish. There was a series of forges on the west side of the road now called Point Pleasant (No. 20, then and for long afterwards a private road), and a warehouse and wharf to the north (No. 45 in North Field). The frying pan works continued until about 1771, when Joseph Gatty and William Waller, chemists and druggists from London, began using the premises to make chemicals for Wandsworth’s dyers and calico-printers (it was also described as a vinegar works). Gatty and Waller were bankrupt in 1787, and Stone acquired the lease of part of their land and bought Gatty’s estate, though in fact Gatty continued in business here until at least 1820. ↑ table

26. The large building in this plot, east of Point Pleasant, was a malthouse, first insured against fire in 1740. ↑ table

27. The Island of Providence had been created when a new and more direct outlet was cut for the Wandle to the Thames. Until then the Wandle had entered the Thames at the west end of what became the island. Its old course was reduced to little more than a ditch by 1838. ↑ table

29. Much of this plot was said in about 1810 to have been washed away by the river. [21] — ## Page 22 ↑ table

31. No. 31 apparently belonged to the parish. It was probably the osier ground stated in the vestry minutes for 1786 to be ’much reduced and wasted away by the barges continually going round it’. In that year the parish leased its osier grounds (including No. 27) to a basket-maker of London. ↑ table

37. Hogmore Green, north of Frogmore, was common land which provided access to the Wandle. The warehouse was built in about 1730 and the land was leased in 1733 to a private owner (Hugh Cumlyn, a lighterman, or barge-man), but common rights appear to have continued. In 1753 the parish vestry noted that parishioners were in danger of losing their right of shipping and landing goods at Hogmore Green into craft that came up ’the town creek or dock’, and it successfully fought a lawsuit on the subject. However, in 1783 Hogmore Green was again being claimed as private property (by Thomas Bennett, a coal merchant, its occupier in 1787), and the parish offered to indemnify anyone sued for landing goods there. Corris’s map has a line of dashes indicating that the plot was still open to Frogmore in 1787, but in 1799 Bennett was once more bringing actions for trespass and the parish was again paying defence costs. The parish eventually lost the struggle: in 1836 Hogmore Green was offered for sale as freehold land without any mention of common rights. Hogmore Green gave its name (in a corrupted form) to Frogmore. ↑ table

45. The most important building here was a substantial house built by Samuel Palmer, an eminent London surgeon, in the 1720s or 1730s. Its owner in 1787 was John Wilmot, a lawyer. There was a notable scandal in 1791 when his wife Frances was found to have committed adultery with the under-footman, Edward Washbourn; divorce proceedings followed. The house later formed part of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, until the present housing estate was built here in the mid-1970s. [Map detail of West Hill/Putney Bridge Road area, showing plots 45, 47, 48-53, 54, 55, 56, 73, 69, 68, 72, 70-71, 138, 137, labelled West Hill and [Merton Road], [Putney Bridge Road].] ↑ table

51. Tyson Chapman was a brewer in Putney. The George is first recorded, as the Fox, in 1704; by 1739 it was the George, and by 1823 the George and Dragon. It was demolished to widen West Hill in 1903. ↑ table

59. This plot, north of the church, was the site of Savage Farm, from which the Wandsworth part of Battersea and Wandsworth manor had once been administered. A large house was built here in the early seventeenth century, and was occupied in 1633 by Sir Thomas Brodrick, whose descendants (the Viscounts [22] — ## Page 23 Midleton) later owned Dunsford manor. At least part of the house still stood in 1787. ↑ table

62. The parish church (All Saints) was largely rebuilt in 1779-80, retaining only the tower (built in 1630 but now much altered) and the present north aisle (of 1716-24). The main change since 1787 has been the addition of the present chancel and a new roof in 1899-1900. ↑ table

64. The Middle Mill, east of Wandsworth Plain, comprised both a watermill and a windmill. It was sometimes known as the Brazil Mill, recording its use in the sixteenth century to grind brazil wood in order to make dyes, though otherwise it was a corn mill almost throughout its existence. Tealing rebuilt the mill before 1770. It remained in use until about 1893. ↑ table

75. A substantial brick house was built here in or about 1775 by Charles Rook. ↑ table

78. Benjamin Paterson in 1787 leased the 200 acre Cowdrey Farm south of Wimbledon Park, as well as 20 acres of open field land and Nos. 78, 98 and 105 in Wandsworth. He soon made a name for himself as ’a very scientific farmer’, and introduced one of the newly-invented threshing machines; later he also ran Wimbledon’s copper mill. The Countess Spencer nicknamed him ’Splutter Paterson’ and described him as ’vulgar to a degree’, but was nevertheless impressed by his abilities and even invited him to dinner. ↑ table

79. In 1787 this was a smallish house, built by Penelope Pitt, a wealthy heiress, after she purchased the land in 1759. Nevertheless the estate was the most valuable property in the parish after Earl Spencer’s park, being rated at £200 a year. It was known as West Hill. Samuel Hannay, a drug merchant and chemist from Scotland, bought it in 1786, and in the following year was said to be ’making considerable improvements’. In 1789 he sold it to John Anthony Rucker, a merchant from Hamburg, who built the present house, now part of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability. ↑ table

80. One of the keepers of this lodge, Robert Tebbutt in the early nineteenth century, gave his name to Tibbet’s Corner. ↑ table

81. This part of the Spencers’ Wimbledon Park, labelled ’Game Cover’, was enclosed from the Common in or shortly before 1782, for which Earl Spencer agreed to pay Wandsworth parish £50 a year. Common land to its east had already been enclosed, in the 1750s. Wandsworth’s part of what we now call Wimbledon Common had formerly been its largest area of common land. ↑ table

82. The Spencers’ menagery for birds and small animals was established in Wimbledon Park in the 1770s (about where Kingsmere Road is now). The birds included a parrot, a cockatoo, a pheasant, an eagle, canaries, turkeys and doves. The animals included two dormice, a squirrel and a fox. ↑ table

85. On the edge of this plot was the ’boundary tree’ or ’boundary oak’ between Wandsworth and Wimbledon (where Wimbledon Park Road and Victoria Drive now meet). Here, during the perambulation of Wandsworth’s boundaries in 1788, [23] — ## Page 24 the party was ’met by some of Earl Spencers servants, with two casks of strong beer, and bread and cheese’; the 30th psalm was then sung and several men and boys were bumped against the tree. ↑ table

88. Remarkably, Horse Close Wood, which stood here before it was enclosed in the park, still exists at the north end of the open space known as Wimbledon Park. ↑ table

102. This was the former manor house of Dunsford manor, adjoining Merton Road. Since the early seventeenth century it had been no more than a farmhouse. The site is now used by the Territorial Army. ↑ table

124. The rent from Clock Acre was being used to repair Wandsworth’s church clock by 1577. The name may originally have referred to the ’cloches’, or bells. ↑ table

126. A tenter ground was where cloth was stretched out on frames called tenters to dry. James Williamson was a dyer, running the dyeing works just over the Wandle in No. 271. ↑ table

127. In 1739 the parish vestry recorded that parishioners could pasture their cattle on Upper and Lower Rise and Duntshill from 1 August (Lammas) to 2 February, and declared its intention of defending these ancient rights. In 1787 George Shepley of the Upper Mills was preventing people taking their cattle into the Rises. In 1797 he sought the parish’s permission to enclose them, explaining that public access made his property liable to ’depredations’, and this was agreed to. In 1802 he converted part of the Rises into a reservoir for the Upper Mills. Upper Rise is now part of Wandsworth Shopping Centre, while Lower Rise (No. 128) is part of King George’s Park. ↑ table

131. The Upper Mills, belonging to George Shepley, probably consisted of a corn mill and an oil mill in 1787, but had been used as a copper mill and a leather mill earlier in the century. They were rebuilt in 1770-1 by Shepley, and again in 1818, and remained in use until destroyed by fire in 1928 (which brought the story of Wandsworth’s mills to an end). Some of the mill buildings survived until 1962. The site is now part of Wandsworth Shopping Centre. ↑ table

133. In 1792, Henry Gardiner’s calico-printing works (on what became known as Frogs Island) employed 250 hands, as many as all Wandsworth’s other manufactures put together. Gardiner’s fire insurance policy of 1787 records, among other buildings, a warehouse, printing shop, pencilling shop, glazing shop with drawing room over, dyehouse and blue dyehouse. The site of the works is now the northern part of Wandsworth Shopping Centre’s Traders Hall. ↑ table

135. This land contained straight parallel water channels. In order to bleach the calico (cotton cloth) it was spread on the grass, and workers walked along by the channels using scoops to drench it; the sun caused the calico to become white, taking about a month if the weather was favourable. On a map of Gardiner’s estate in 1828 there were similar channels in Nos. 123, 124 and 128. No. 135 is now part of King George’s Park. ↑ table

137. Down Lodge, by Merton Road, was built in about 1783 by Henry Gardiner, calico- [24] — ## Page 25 printer, and has survived to the present. Gardiner was typical of Wandsworth manufacturers in this period in living close to his works. The buildings on the lower ground on the east side of the plot had formerly been a calico-printing works (approached from the High Street by what is now Broomfield Road), but Gardiner had moved the works to No. 133 by 1787. ↑ table

140. William Newton was variously described as a miller and a mealman, and was the tenant of the windmill in Bridge Field. He evidently gave his name to Newton’s Yard, which still exists, south of the High Street. It was on the site of the former Eagle and Child, first recorded as an inn in 1621. (No. 139 was apparently the back part of this plot, since it is coloured blue, indicating non-Spencer ownership, whereas the front part is coloured pink.) ↑ table

143. This plot included the Ram Brewery (now Young’s), which was bought in 1763 by Thomas Tritton, a wine merchant, brewer and banker from Ashford in Kent, and was inherited by his son George in 1786. By the time of Corris’s map the Trittons had begun to purchase nearby pubs as tied houses, including the King’s Arms, the Black Bull and the Three Jolly Butchers in Wandsworth. Also in this plot was the Barchard family’s dyeing works. ↑ table

149. Ram Lane was not the same as the present Ram Street, most of which came into existence as the trackbed of the Surrey Iron Railway, constructed in 1801-3. ↑ table

161. This was the Lower Mill, originally known as Lampet (or Loampit) Mill and first recorded in 1371. It was a corn mill almost throughout its existence, apart from a period as an oil mill from at least 1723 to 1755. In 1787 it was owned by Richard Bush. It went out of use in about 1893 and was demolished by 1898. The site is now occupied by the electricity substation in The Causeway. ↑ table

162. The Three Jolly Butchers was also known as The Feathers, and only the latter name is recorded from 1794-5. It was rebuilt in about 1776 by Humphrey Webb, bricklayer. It closed in about 1888, but the building survived until 1959. ↑ table

164. This plot included an alley known in the nineteenth century as Spencer’s Court. ↑ table

168. The ’building’ here, adjoining Waterside, was a malthouse, built by Ambrose Snoswell, maltster, in about 1765. ↑ table

174. Nos. 174 and 175, south of Waterside, were respectively leased and owned by William Prowting, a London apothecary. He evidently gave rise to the name of Apothecaries Row, a terrace of 12 tenements (one room upstairs and one down, plus attic), which stood on part of these two plots. Prowting had it insured against fire in 1747, and its name is first recorded in 1765. ↑ table

176. Mary Brooks was the widow of Samuel Brooks, a London broker. She objected to traffic: in 1788 she had placed a post in front of her house in Waterside and another in the lane behind her house to prevent carriages passing. These were thrown down during the parish perambulation of that year. ↑ table

179. This plot included most of Waterside. In 1788 most of the inhabitants here were [25] — ## Page 26 said to be ’poor fishermen’. Earl Spencer’s strip of waste in front of it (No. 180) was probably used for landing boats. One of the cottages was described in 1800 as being ’on Wandsworth strand’. Of the pubs here, only the Ship (first recorded in 1662) still exists. ↑ table

183. This plot, adjoining Jews Row, included at its south end Jews House (north-west of the junction of Jews Row and York Road). Its name was derived from Jacob and Rachel Da Costa, who purchased a house and land in Dunsford manor in 1729. They died in 1760 and 1776 respectively, but evidently a Da Costa still held land here in 1787. The house was demolished in about 1865. ↑ table

193. This former waste land already contained warehouses, a wharf and the Blue Anchor pub when Elizabeth Buckler leased it in 1693. She owned the gunpowder mills at Garratt. The Blue Anchor, or Anchor, closed in 1810-11. ↑ table

193a. At least one of the powder houses came into existence in the 1670s, when it was used by the gunpowder makers of Garratt Mills. This was almost certainly ’the 1st powder house’ (No. 193a), since it was leased to Elizabeth Buckler, owner of those mills, in 1693. They remained in use long after local gunpowder manufacture ceased, and did not disappear until after 1838. Whether they were used for gunpowder from the Worcester Park mills (like the gunpowder house in North Field — see below) is unknown. Richard Green, who held the land before Charles Green, was a lighterman (barge-man). The approach to the present Wandsworth Bridge crosses the site of No. 193a. [Map detail of Thames/Windmill Shot area, showing plots 166, 180, 179, 176, 173-174-175, 177-178, 172, landing place, 192b, 193a, 193, 192, 192a-191-190, 189, 186, 184, 185, 181-182-183, Windmill Shot, [York Road], 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 200-206, 187, 188.] ↑ table

197. The windmill was moved here from Putney Heath by George Buddle in the early 1660s. [26] — ## Page 27 ↑ table

198. The distillery in the north-east corner of the parish was built by Richard Bush and partners at about the time of Corris’s map; the map and book of reference are the earliest evidence of it. It later belonged to John Watney & Co, and it closed in 1989. ↑ table

199. The large building here was a ’hoggery’, belonging to the owners of the distillery. The hogs would have consumed waste from the distillery. ↑ table

208. In 1793 this was described as ’a modern house built with grey stock bricks, pleasantly situated, commanding a most beautiful prospect, and surrounded with a suitable area of pleasure ground’. It had been built by Tatlock, and was rated at £70 a year. ↑ table

209. The house on the eastern part of this plot was known as Swandown House, and later as Wandsworth Manor House, though it never was a manor house. It was built after 1707 by Peter Paggen, who also built Church Row in Wandsworth Plain. In 1787 its occupant was Richard Bush, distiller and miller (at the Lower Mill), and it was rated at £75 a year. It was demolished in 1891. The western part of No. 209 was being let in 1788 to Christopher Masterman, a retired coal merchant. Trinity Road now passes through No. 209. ↑ table

213. A house later known as the White House was built here facing York Road by George Gostling, a lawyer (a Proctor in Doctors’ Commons), who assembled an estate in this part of Wandsworth in 1755-67. ↑ table

218. A headland was a strip at right angles to its neighbours for the plough to turn on. ↑ table

221. These almshouses on East Hill dated from about 1627, but the plot also contained the parish workhouse, built in 1730-1. It was superseded by a workhouse on St John’s Hill belonging to a union of parishes in 1838. ↑ table

225. Part of Mount Nod was enclosed from the street in 1680. The graveyard around All Saints had become too crowded, and this was the first new parish burial ground. Its name probably indicated that it was a place of sleep. Its creation coincided with the arrival of the Huguenots (French Protestants), and it was sometimes known as the French Churchyard (and later as the Huguenot Cemetery), though by no means all those buried here were Huguenots. It was extended westwards in 1735 by enclosing the ’new piece’, and remains an open space today. Land to its west, where Book House now stands, had not yet been enclosed in 1787. ↑ table

229. The French Horn on East Hill was one of Wandsworth’s three main inns, first recorded in 1688 (as the Half Moon) and known by 1740 as the Half Moon and French Horn and later as the French Horn and Half Moon. After at least one rebuilding it was finally demolished for the underpass in about 1968. ↑ table

230. On the east side of this plot was a late sixteenth or early seventeenth century brick house later known as The Gables. It was occupied by the antiquary, Francis Grose, in the 1760s and 1770s, when it was called Mulberry Cottage. It was demolished in 1901, and 72-80 North Side now occupy the site. [27] — ## Page 28 [Map detail of Hill Shot/East Hill area, showing plots 218a, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 278, labelled [East Hill], [North Side], [Common], with north arrow and scale bar (0–600 feet).] ↑ table

237. This encroachment on the Common, dating from 1729 or earlier, subsequently expanded eastwards and southwards to form what is now Spencer Park. ↑ table

238. This is now a row of houses (Heathview Gardens) jutting into the Common. Richard Penn, a gardener, had three tenements here, insured for the first time in 1756. Each had two storeys and garrets, and one of them he occupied himself. However, the enclosure, with a building or buildings on it, also appears on Rocque’s map of 1740-5. ↑ table

239. This land was enclosed from the Common in or before 1734. The house existed by 1753, when Joseph Wight Esq (not Wright) bought it. In 1761 it was described as ’finished in a grand manner’, with a new parlour and staircase, and in 1793 it was said to be ’a large white house’. John Latimer Morton was keeping a boarding school here in 1787. It was rated at £75 a year. By 1793 it was Mr Roberts’ academy ’for the education of noblemen’s sons’. ↑ table

240. This house (replacing a cottage) was built for Thomas Crosier, a merchant, in about 1750, when it was insured against fire as ’unfinished’. It had two storeys and garrets. By 1771 it was occupied by Thomas Rackett, a tailor of Covent Garden, and a single-storey room with a bow had been added. It was rated at £50 a year in 1787, though Rackett also had a farm here rated at £92 a year. ↑ table

244. Unusually, this encroachment on the Common has since disappeared. ↑ table

245. This pond has since disappeared. [28] — ## Page 29 ↑ table

246. Only a narrow, irregular strip belonged to Earl Spencer on the south side of East Hill (Nos. 246 to 252), which indicates that these were enclosures from a road which had once been wider. The map of Allfarthing manor in 1633 shows a much wider roadway. ↑ table

247. Sir James Sanderson was Lord Mayor of London in 1793. His five-bay, three-storey house here was rated at £50 a year. It was replaced by Melody Road in about 1891. ↑ table

256. There is no other record of a Presbyterian meeting-house here, and the meeting-house was probably that of the Quakers, first established in 1673. It was rebuilt in 1778, and still stands. There were 20 Quaker families in Wandsworth in 1792, as well as two Quaker schools, one of them, in Allfarthing manor house, kept by [Map detail of Wandle/High Street/Garratt Lane area, showing plots 141, 142, 138, 132, 133, 264, 258, 259, 257, 256, 260, 130, 134, 129, 265, 262, 128, 266, 261, 127, 268, 269, 270, 277, 126, 271, 124, 272, 123, 125, 273, labelled [High Street], [Garratt Lane], [Wandle].] [29] — ## Page 30 Mr Tempest. Next door to the Quaker meeting-house, and also in No. 256, there was later a Methodist chapel, but it is unclear whether it existed in 1787. ↑ table

257. This was more usually the Spread Eagle, as it is now. It was Wandsworth’s most important inn, and is first mentioned in 1664. ’Wandsworth Club’ (also recorded as ’Gentlemen of Wandsworth Club’) appears to be a reference to the recently-erected assembly room, attached to the inn, where in the 1790s ’the gentry of the village, and its environs, hold their balls, assemblies, &c.’ The Club’s lease began in 1786. The Spread Eagle was also where Earl Spencer’s rents were collected. The present building dates from 1898. ↑ table

261. This became a burial ground in 1808 and is now an open space. ↑ table

271. This was a long-established dyeing works by the Wandle, probably dating back to the 1650s. It continued to operate until about 1830. ↑ table

274. This mill (near the Old Sergeant pub in Garratt Lane) was earlier known as Adkins Mill, and is recorded from 1363 onward. From 1654 to the 1770s it was a copper mill, but in 1777 James Henckell converted it into an iron mill, where he manufactured cannon and other heavy items. It ceased to be an iron mill in the 1830s, and was then a paper mill until it finally closed in 1909. ↑ table

277. This area included Allfarthing manor house, west of the kink in Allfarthing Lane. It was rebuilt in the 1650s, and in 1787 was a boarding school. The Turk’s Head pub, first recorded in 1786, closed in 1939. ↑ table

278. The Two Brewers, first recorded in 1721, is now the Brewers’ Inn. ↑ table

280. This plot included a calico-printing works by the Wandle, said to be ’a large old building’ — probably the large building shown on the map where Kimber Road now crosses the river. ↑ table

294. This land lay within a loop of the Wandle which had been cut off by digging a new channel. ↑ table

295. Garratt Mill was built as a gunpowder mill in 1656, and was one of the most important places of gunpowder manufacture in England. Production ceased in about 1713. In 1727 Melancton Strong, father and son, converted the site for use as an oil mill and a snuff mill, and for much of the rest of its history its main use was as an oil mill, crushing seeds such as linseed to extract the oil. In 1793 it was said to be in use for oil, white lead and snuff. It remained a mill until a fire in 1890. The site is at the end of the present Trewint Street. ↑ table

296. The Leather Bottle (here the Leathern Bottle) is first recorded in 1721, and still retains its eighteenth-century building. Around it was the hamlet of Garratt, inhabited by labourers, the only settlement in the southern part of the parish until the development of Summerstown in the 1790s. Much of the revelry surrounding the elections of the Mayors of Garratt (from 1747 to 1804) was associated with the Leather Bottle. (Despite what the book of reference says, the Leather Bottle was in Dunsford manor.) [30] — ## Page 31 ↑ table

297. These bleaching grounds (first recorded in Corris’s book of reference) were associated with the calico-printing works shown on the map just over the parish boundary in Wimbledon, at the end of Riverside. The print works existed by 1776 and remained in business until at least 1871. ↑ table

299. In 1792 this field was transferred to John Terry, a bricklayer of Wimbledon, as building ground, and Terry evidently proceeded to build here the first part of the settlement known as Summerstown, west of the road of that name. ↑ table

306. Drunken Bridge crossed a stream where Aboyne Road now meets Garratt Lane. The origin of the name is unknown. ↑ table

312. The whole area south of Burntwood Lane was an estate known as the Garratt, always held with Dunsford manor until the seventeenth century. It probably originated as a result of medieval woodland clearance. A ’garret’ was a watch-house or tower. ↑ table

North Field. The land by the Thames (Nos. 40 to 45) was meadow land, known as Tide Mead. The inlet in No. 41 was a dock, 70 feet long, dug in about 1745 for boats serving the gunpowder house built just south of it in Thames Shot in or shortly before 1743. Both dock and gunpowder house were the work of William Taylor, who owned the gunpowder mills at Worcester Park and was also a ship chandler (dealer in goods needed by ships) at Wapping; evidently the gunpowder at Wandsworth was en route from Worcester Park to Wapping. By 1787 the gunpowder house was by the river in No. 5, and what may have happened is that the local outcry when it was first built forced Taylor to rebuild it further from the built-up parts of Wandsworth. Both of its sites are within the present Wandsworth Park. ↑ table

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Further Reading

— ‘The perambulation of Wandsworth parish boundaries in 1788’, Wandsworth Historian, No. 71 (2000), 9–12, 15; No. 72 (2000), 12–17 (transcript of Wandsworth vestry minutes, annotated by Tony Evans).

C.T. Davis, Industries of Wandsworth (1898; new edition 1983).

Rita Ensing, ‘Some field and place names of Wandsworth’, Wandsworth Historian, No. 53 (1987), 10–19.

Rita Ensing, ‘Dunsford manor and the Brodrick family in Wandsworth’, Wandsworth Historian, No. 42 (1984), 15–22; No. 44 (1985), 8–14.

Dorian Gerhold, Wandsworth past (1998).

Daniel Lysons, The environs of London (1792), vol. 1, 502–18 (republished as Lysons’s history of Wandsworth by Local History Reprints, 1991).

Richard Milward, The Spencers in Wimbledon: 1744–1994 (1996).

Victoria History of the Counties of England – Surrey, vol. 4 (1912), 108–20 (not always reliable, but useful for the histories of the manors).

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Notes & References

Abbreviations used in Gerhold’s notes: 1633 map – Surrey History Centre, 3991/1; 1755 survey – NRO, Spencer MR, 7d1, 1755 Wandsworth survey; CLB – J. Edwards, Companion from London to Brighthelmston (1801, but relating to 1793); FIP – Tony Evans, Local and family history from fire insurance policies (for the 18th & 19th centuries) (2001); LMA – London Metropolitan Archives; LT – land tax for 1787 (in Surrey History Centre; copy in WLHC); Lysons – Daniel Lysons, The environs of London (1792), vol. 1; NRO – Northamptonshire Record Office; PRO – Public Record Office; WFR – NRO, Spencer MR, 7d1, Wandsworth freehold rental; WH – Wandsworth Historian; WLHC – Wandsworth Local History Collection; WNQ – Wandsworth notes & queries (1898–9); WP – Dorian Gerhold, Wandsworth past (1998); WPb – Dorian Gerhold, Wandsworth pubs (forthcoming); WVM – WLHC, Wandsworth vestry minutes.

References for the text: The map is in British Library, Althorp Papers P13, part 1 section 1. The book of reference used here is NRO, Spencer survey 8 (with missing information on No. 246 taken from the version in Spencer survey 1). The text is largely from Dorian Gerhold, Wandsworth past (1998), where full references are given, or from Corris’s map and book of reference; these are not further noted here. Numbered references: 1. Several versions of the Battersea map are in British Library, Althorp Papers, P13, part 1 section 1; the Putney one is in Wandsworth Museum, though there are also versions in British Library, Althorp Papers, P2 and P13, part 1 section 1. 2. Sarah Bendall (ed.), Dictionary of land surveyors and local map-makers of Great Britain and Ireland 1530–1850 (1997), 115. 3. Lysons, 502. 4. British Library, Add 9436, 375. 5. 1755 survey. 6. See WH 53, 10–19. 7. WVM, 1709–44, 376. 8. 1755 survey. 9. WH 71, 9–12, 15; WH 72, 12–17. 10. PRO, LR 2/197, ff.4–5; Calendars of State Papers Domestic, 1639–40, 156–7. 11. Richard Milward, The Spencers in Wimbledon: 1744–1994 (1996), 21, 74. See also WP, 30–1. 12. 1755 survey. 13. WVM, 1796–1817, 24 Nov 1802; NRO, SOX 330(3). 14. NRO, SOX 329, plan of Miery Mead. 15. NRO, SOX 216, papers on Surrey Iron Railway. 16. WH 72, 16. 17. WVM, 1744–77, 453, 468–9, 472, 1818–29, 143–4, 158–9; WH 71, 11. 18. LMA, P95/ALL1/44, f.206. See also WH 41, 19–24. 19. WH 72, 12–13. 20. WNQ, 109. 21. See the Allfarthing surveys in NRO, Spencer papers, 7h4 and SOX 330(1).

References for the notes on individual plots: 1. Rocque’s map of the environs of London, 1740–5; Lambeth Archives, deed 14823; LT; WNQ, 198; WVM, 1777–96, 313, 414–15. 6. NRO, SOX 282, 1672 lease to Aldridge; WP, 57; WNQ, 225; CLB, 28; NRO, SOX 423, 1745 lease to Howitt. 15. WPb. 18. WP, 41–3, 45; NRO, SOX 252, 1775 leases to Spyers and Gatty & Waller; Lysons, 503; LT; NRO, Spencer MR, 7d1, 1780s memoranda, f.23. 26. FIP, 44, Nos.573–5, 53, Nos.231–2. 27. 1633 map; WLHC, Wandsworth tithe map, 1838. 29. NRO, SOX 439. 31. 1633 map; Walter Rye, Some notes on the deeds relating to the parish and other charities of Wandsworth (1881), 6, 27–8; WVM, 1744–77, 80, 194, 1777–96, 210, 258–9, 1818–29, 596, 659–61. 37. NRO, SOX 439, 1733 lease; FIP, 9, 78; WVM, 1744–77, 88, 163–4, 239, 1777–96, 128, 1796–1817, 20 Nov 1799; WNQ, 94. 45. WP, 55–6. 51. WLHC, Miss Hare’s notes on Putney parish registers; WPb. 59. WH 42, 15–16; Owen Manning and William Bray, The history and antiquities of the County of Surrey, vol.3 (1814), 342. 62. WP, 91; WVM, 1777–96, 62. 64. WP, 33; WH 70, 17–18; WVM, 1744–77, 371. 75. NRO, SOX 252, 1775 lease to Rook. 78. Richard Milward, The Spencers in Wimbledon: 1744–1994 (1996), 66. 79. WH 60, 7–9; WNQ, 224; LT. 80. Milward, Spencers, 21. 81. WP, 30–1, WVM, 1777–96, 102–4. 82. Milward, Spencers, 23. 85. WH 72, 12. 88. PRO, MR 1/1152. 102. WH 44, 10. 124. WH 53, 16; Rye, Notes on the deeds, 7n. 126. Lysons, 503. 127. WVM, 1709–44, 376, 1777–96, 318–19, 325–6, 1796–1817, 1 Sept 1797, 28 Jan 1802; WH 72, 16. 131. WP, 33–6. 133. Lysons, 503; FIP, 59, No.395. 135. WP, 43–4. 137. CLB, 28; NRO, SOX 277. 140. FIP, 18; No.197 in table above; WPb. 143. Helen Osborn, Britain’s oldest brewery (1999), 47. 149. NRO, SOX 342, map. 161. WP, 33; WVM, 1744–77, 194; LT; WH 70, 17. 162. WPb. 164. WLHC, 1836 rate. 168. WH 71, 10. 174. FIP, 21, 29, 54, Nos.268–9; WLHC, volume of sale catalogues. 176. WH 71, 10; FIP, 6. 179. WH 71, 10; NRO, SOX 330(1), 1800 survey; WPb. 183. Dorian Gerhold, ‘Wandsworth’s gunpowder mills, 1656–1713’, Surrey Archaeological Collections, forthcoming; WFR, 1693 Buckler, 1756 Savage; NRO, SOX 252, 1775 lease to Green; WPb. 197. John Aubrey, The natural history and antiquities of Surrey (1719), vol.1, 14; PRO, E 112/522, No.225; Lambeth Archives, VI/258. 198. WP, 41; FIP, 78. 199. WH 71, 11. 208. CLB, 25; LT. 209. CLB, 25; WP, 53–5; LT; WH 71, 11–12. 213. LMA, Q PSN 1–6. 221. WP, 104–5. 225. WP, 90. 229. WPb. 230. WP, 17, 53; Wandsworth Historical Society newssheet, 1964/2. 237. WFR, 1760 Hick; FIP, 13, No.710, 15–16, Nos.867–70, 45, Nos.610–12. 238. FIP, 19, 33, 56, Nos.140–3, 56, Nos.314–15. 239. NRO, SOX 423, 1760 lease to Smith; FIP, 28, 56, Nos.316–17; CLB, 26; LT. 240. WFR, 1761 Crosier; FIP, 9, 21, 55, Nos.289–91; LT. 246. 1633 map. 247. CLB, 26; WP, 51; LT. 256. WP, 91–3; Lysons, 511; CLB, 26. 257. WPb; NRO, Spencer survey 1; NRO, Spencer MR, 7d1, 1780s memoranda, ff.37, 39; CLB, 26. 261. WP, 90. 271. WP, 43. 274. WP, 36–7. 277. CLB, 26; Lysons, 506; Surrey History Centre, K61/5/57; WPb. 278. WPb. 280. CLB, 14. 294. 1633 map. 295. Gerhold, ‘Wandsworth’s gunpowder mills’. 296. WPb; census 1851; WP, 59–62; Surrey History Centre, G145, Box 17, Dunsford extract book, 60. 297. WP, 44. 299. Lambeth Archives, deed 4454. 312. WH 53, 18. N.Field. NRO, SOX 277, 1745 and 1758 leases; WVM, 1709–44, 485; Gerhold, ‘Wandsworth’s gunpowder mills’.

Transcription note: the transcription and annotations require checking against Gerhold’s original paper and photographs of the manuscript, since it is easy to introduce errors in a document of this size. Please get in touch if you spot one.