Wandsworth in 1842 Wandsworth is on both sides of the river
Wandle at its junction with the Thames. It is about 7 miles from
the General Post-office, on the old Portsmouth road. The London
and South-Western Railway and the Surrey Iron Railway run
through the parish. Wandsworth is called in ‘Domesday’
Wandesorde and Wendlesorde. The area of the parish is 1,820
acres : the population, in 1831, was 6,879. The main street is
along the Portsmouth road. There are some good mansions,
inhabited chiefly by wealthy Londoners. There are manufactures
of British matting, bed-sacking, bolting-cloths, wire-blinds,
candles, and hats : there are a distillery, vinegar-works, malt-
houses, breweries, dye-houses, corn and paper mills, an iron-
foundry, lime-kilns, coal-wharfs, and calico print-works. The
church is a plain modern building ; and there are two chapels-
of-ease, St. Anne’s and Summer’s Town chapels ; and some
dissenting places of worship. There are gas-works, a police-
station, a savings-bank ; and infant, national, and