The History of Wandsworth Common
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Wandsworth Common
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1826
[The Times: Search: "Wandsworth Common"].
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[London Evening Standard: Buckmaster Wandsworth 1826]
[Pall Mall Gazette: "Wandsworth Common" 1826]
[London Daily News: "Wandsworth Common" 1826]
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[South London Chronicle: "Wandsworth Common" 1826]
[Daily Telegraph: "Wandsworth Common" 1826]
[Clerkenwell News: "Wandsworth Common" 1826]
[London Daily News: "Wandsworth Common" 1826]
[Globe: "Wandsworth Common" 1826]
OTHERS? NORWOOD ?
Windsor and Eton Express, 11 March 1826
A stag hunted from Cheam to Vauxhall, across Wandsworth Common
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On Tuesday, March 7, the Earl of Derby's stag hounds met at the Hundred Acres, near the Oaks. A very fine stag turned out at half past ten, in the presence of the Earl of Derby and numerous field of sportsmen. The stag went away in a gallant style on the right of Cheam through the enclosures to Mordon. The noble Earl of Derby was when a short check was allowed to give the stag law; fine burst followed at speed ; the stag went away to the right of Lord Spencer's park [Wimbledon Park], over the river Wandle, up the bank of Wandsworth, across Wandsworth Common, along part of the Turnpike road, into the meadows between Battersea open fields and the Wandsworth road, and was taken unhurt, and safely housed at Nine Elms, within few yards of the Thames, at the back of Cumberland Gardens, Vauxhall. The chase lasted two hours and a quarter. Few were in at the taking.
[BNA: Link]
Also
Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, 12 March 1826
[BNA: Link]
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 4 August 1826
Burntwood Cottage Villa and grounds, "delightfully set on Wandsworth Common, to let
[PB: I seem to recollect the new tenant got in trouble a year or two later for fiddling the stamp duty payable. CHECK.]
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WANDSWORTH COMMON, SURREY Delightful COTTAGE VILLA, with PLEASURE GROUNDS, SHEET of WATER, walled GARDEN, and ACRES of MEADOW LAND.
TO BE LET ON LEASE
By WINSTANLEY and SONS
A Very unique COTTAGE ORNEE, of tasteful elevation, known as BURNTWOOD COTTAGE, formerly the retreat of WALSH PORTER, Esq. delightfully situated on Wandsworth Common, commanding most extensive and picturesque scenery, including Lord Spencer's Park [Wimbledon Park], the Surrey Hills. Epsom Downs, etc. surrounded by its own ornamental grounds, gardens, aad acres of meadow land, with all suitable attached and detached offices, coach-house, and stabling, plentifully supplied with water.
To be viewed by tickets, which, with further Particulars, may had of Winstanley and Sons, Paternoster-row.
[Source: BNA: link]
- Advert repeated e.g. in Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 11 August 1826, 18 August 1826, 25 August 1826. .
- "BURNTWOOD COTTAGE" — WHERE WAS IT? IS THIS THE HOUSE LATER RENAMED BURNTWOOD HOUSE? BURNTWOOD LODGE?
- Wikipedia: Cottage orne
Cottage orn� or decorated cottage, dates back to a movement of 'rustic' stylised cottages of the late 18th and early 19th century during the Romantic movement, when some sought to discover a more "natural" way of living as opposed to the formality of the preceding baroque and neo-classical architectural styles.
- In 1842, this was the home of John Hampden Gledstances, 11 Regent street — Burntwood cottage, Wandsworth (The Royal Court Guide, and Fashionable Directory, 1842, with a list of . . . , p.24.)
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 11 November 1826
Death of 16-year-old Edward Archer
[PB: Notice the assertion that WC is a healthy environment for the sick.]
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Late on Tuesday evening last, at Wandsworth Common, to which place he had been removed, in the hope of deriving benefit from change of air, died Edward Archer, the eldest son of Sir Edward Archer Wilde, of College Hill, Solicitor, after an illness of eighteen months, sustained without complaint or murmur. This youth, 16nyears old, was endeared to a large circle of relations' and friends the possession of very considerable talents, most successfully cultivated; as well by temper and general principles equally praiseworthy and amiable. He had been compelled to leave Winchester College 12 months since, where he had very honourably distinguished himself, and obtained those prizes for scholastic merit, which now remain embalm the memory of one deserving and beloved.
[Source: BNA: Morning Chronicle, 11 November 1826. Also Morning Chronicle, 10 November 1826 [check].]