A History of Wandsworth Common

Added

IN PROGRESS — NOT FOR PUBLICATION



Places & Areas

The Anatomy [and evolution] of Wandsworth Common


 — Link

 — Index of Places

 — Index of People

 — Index of Maps

 — Index of Chronicles so far

 — Link


Must collect c.10 maps at really high resolutions. Use them throughout the book. Print nice versions for sale.

List of best maps and aerial photos

 — Gardner/Porter Allfarthing 1640s

 — Rocque 1740s-1760s

 — Milne 1800

 — Tithe 1840s — separate? combined?

 — OS maps — pick years

 — Stanford maps — pick years [1862, 1872, 1891, 1905

 — War time aerial photo — which year(s)?

 — Openstreetmap?


 — May want to use other maps for specific reasons, probably small e.g.

 — OS e.1800s

 — John Corris 1780s — Wandsworth and Battersea

 — Faden 1790

 — Stanford Geology. 1878<.li>

 — Wandsworth Common as it was and is, 1889

 — Shaw-Lefevre, English Commons and Forests, 1894.

 — Charles Booth, 1898

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 — LCC bomb map


Major areas [today]

 — The Scope

 — Bellevue Field

 — [Wandsworth Common station area]

 — Bolingbroke Fields

 — The St Mark's Triangle

 — North Side [Field?]

 — [RVPA patch]

 — Heathfield [Field]

 — Prison Banks


Places

 — The Bumps, Hills, or Mounds — between the railway line and Bolingbroke Grove.

 — Cats Back Bridge

 — Cinder Pitches/Patch — on Scope, top of Burntwood Lane.

 — Drinking fountain(s)

 — The Three-Island Pond

 — Black Sea

 — The Lake (aka Long Pond, Dog Pond etc)

 — The Bridge over the Lake - the Rustic Bridge (pre-1920) - the stone bridge (post-1920)

 — Frying Pan

 — The Windmill — the remains of the pump on Windmill Road.

 — The Lavatories.

 — Nightingale/Bolingbroke Corner

 — The North Side / Battersea Rise triangle

 — The evolution of the Kite — RVPA Girls / RVPA Boys / Neals / Cricket Area

 — The Playgrounds.

 — WC Station areas to north and south

 — Railway lines

 — ? drift lanes = Funnels — Allfarthing, St Mark's, Nightingale lane, ? Trinity Road at southern end, Burntwood Lane

 — Gravel and sand pits

 — Streams

 — Walls


Borders and boundaries

 — Parishes

 — Council

 — LCC

 — Electoral wards


Lost bits — areas lost to the Common

 — Railways

 — The roads — Trinity Road, St James's Drive, Bolingbroke Grove / Windmill Road, Spencer Park. But Marcilly Road reattached.

 — General encroachment around the sides [including the 53 enclosures?]

 — Allfarthing Piece / The Toast Rack

Heathfield Cottages

 — Front gardens of 5 Houses etc along Bolingbroke Grove, front gardens along Heathfield Road / Allfarthing Lane

 — Railways

 — ? Freemasons Girls

 — The Kite / RVPA Girls / Boys / Schools / Housing Estate

 — St Mark's School and Church

 — Plough Green

 — Spencer Park

 — St James's Industrial School etc

 — McKellar's Triangle

 — ? The Field and adjacent fields

 — Strip down edge of Burntwood Lane

 — Book House / Old WBW? Corner of St John's Hill / North Side

 — New Wandsworth Station developments — Chivalry Road and nearby

 — Wandsworth Common Station and land to north lost after James Anderson Rose's death.

 — Windmill Road — and extension of Earlsfield Road


Bits we could have lost — areas retained or re-attached to the Common

Detached parts of the Common

 — The Scope

 — The [?path of deviation] near the Brighton railway line

 — The Bolingbroke strip — discussed in

March 2022.

 — Marcilly Road reattached.

 — Prison Banks


Repurposed

 — Playgrounds created and removed.

 — Prefabs

 — The Cinder pitches

 — Paths? Including the branch of the path off to the right over the Cat's Back bridge towards Bolingbroke Grove.

 — Roads created or widened at expense of the Common — Windmill and Spencer Park, Trinity, Bolingbroke?, Bellevue?

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Features

 — Bandstands

Pound

 — Lavatories

 — Drinking Fountains

 — Huts e.g. changing rooms, Park-keepers...

 — Changed positions of pitches, tennis courts etc.


 — Roads and paths

 — Ghost Road etc

 — Changes created by railways

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 — Paths shown on OS Skeleton map

 — The birds-foot pattern of paths converging/diverging from the Cats Back Bridge

 — The Avenue


Planned losses and "development"

 — More railway lines

 — Urban motorways

 — Scope area on Trinity Road beyond County Arms towards Tooting Be.

 — Olympic-standard sporting facilities