We have published more than 1,800 maps in our series of Old Ordnance Survey Map reprints, some 300 of them in the London area. The maps are highly detailed. They are taken from the OS 1:2,500 (or 25 inch) maps and reduced to about 15 inches to the mile. They show streets with individual houses, tram tracks, railway tracks and even signals, factories, wharves and such details as fountains and water troughs. They will provide hours of fascination for historians and genealogists. The maps are neatly folded and each includes a specially written introduction to the area. Maps can be purchased on our On-line Mapshop where further information about titles is given. For other information and Prices, see Index Page.
Here are the details of maps for Clapham Common:
We have published two versions of this map, showing how the area developed across the years. The maps each cover the same area, stretching from Grandison Road and Wroughton Road eastward to Bedford Road and Lyham Road; and from Freke Road and Clapham High St southward to Malwood Road. Almost all of Clapham Commnon itself is on the map while to the NE of it are the closely packed streets of Clapham, with much of the High St, Holy Trinity church, Park Crescent, Polygon, St Peter's church. However, there are great contrasts between the two maps elsewhere: on the 1870 map the area east and SE of the Common, including much of Clapham Park, is filled with villas in leafy grounds; by 1894 many of these were being replaced by terraces and semis in streets such as Narbonne Avenue, Abbeyville Road, Elms Road etc. But some large houses survive, such as Cavendish House, from which the eccentric scientist Henry Cavendish weighed the world in 1798; this estate would be sold for development in 1905. The essays by Keith Bailey explain these changes. Both maps have extracts from street directories, for numerous streets on the 1870 map, and for Bedford Road, Clapham Common, Clapham Park Road and The Pavement on the 1894 map.
An index map showing the areas covered by this and adjacent maps is available here. The map links up with London Sheets 101 Battersea & Clapham to the north, 115 Wandsworth to the west, 116 Brixton to the east, 125 Clapham Park to the south.
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Maps in the Godfrey Edition are taken from the 25 inch to the mile map and reduced to about 15 inches to the mile. For a full list of maps for London, return to the London page
The Godfrey Edition / godfreyedition@btinternet.com / 29 October 2005