This is a fascinating black and white reprint of an old Ordnance Survey map. On the reverse there are some introductory notes and a place name index.

There are two published 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 Common 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.