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Maps

• find the location of census or trade directory addresses
• see the shape of your ancestor's home, outbuildings, the size of its yard or garden, and what was behind the property and what it looked out over
• see changes in the neighbouring area by comparing maps of different dates
• help establish whether your ancestor's home was rebuilt before or after they lived there

Maps on this site

• detailed tithe maps from the late 1830s/early 1840s
• annotated Ordnance Survey maps from 1894
• street map from around 1925
• hand drawn plan of the Market Lace area around 1930

The tithe and Ordnance Survey maps show each property in enough detail to allow you to match images in postcards and local history book High Street. Sometimes it is possible to trace a particular building through from 1839 to 1935 using maps, read a description of it from the 1909/10 Valuation and (if lucky) find postcards or photos from the 1890s onwards.

NB images are often over 200K and may take some time to download if you are not a Broadband user.

Tithe summary

Each property was allocated a number, for example the Castle Inn and outbuildings share property ref. 320 (208 High Street New Brentford when the High Street was numbered in 1876). The properties shaded pink were occupied by people, those shaded grey were outbuildings.

Ealing Tithe

The Ealing valuer was William Tress of Princes Street, Wilson Street, Finsbury Square Middlesex (not a local man, so some surnames were misinterpreted by him).

The whole of Ealing parish consisted of:

Description	Acres	Roods	Perches*
arable land	834	0	39
meadow or pasture land	1978	2	39
woodland	5	1	27
common or waste land	57	1	31
market garden	467	3	26
ozier ground	5	0	29
sites of buildings, yards, gardens, roads, ways & water	458	3	34
total subject to tithes	3807	3	25
glebe lands #	78	0	22

* 1 perch = 30.25 square yards; 40 perches = 1 rood (1210 square yards) which is a quarter of an acre (4840 square yards)

# in full 'glebe lands which, if not in the hands of the owner or owners, would be subject to tithe of which 67 acres, 3 roods and 3 perches are part of the possessions of the Chancellorship of the Cathedral Church of St Paul in London and to Thomas Jennings Bramly, Thomas Smith, Thomas Harrington & Susannah Smith as lessees as aforesaid and 10 acres, 1 rood and 19 perches belong to Reverend John Smith'

The total value was assessed as £1,630 9 shillings, of which £607 7 shillings was due to the vicar and £1,023 2 shillings was to the appropriator.

New Brentford Tithe

The New Brentford apportionment records land ownership rather than property ownership, so has not been so useful for linking people to properties - but it is a beautiful document with stunning colouring.

List of Tithe Map images

The tithe map images available through the following links appear courtesy of Corporation of London, London Metropolitan Archives.

• New Brentford western section (modern numbers 137 - 185)
• New Brentford central section (modern numbers 110 - 139 south side and 179 - 201 north side)
• New Brentford eastern section (modern numbers 86 - 117 south side and 196 - 224 north side)
• Old Brentford western section (modern numbers 76 - 85 south side and 225 - 254 north side)
• Old Brentford west central section (modern numbers 52 - 75 south side and 255 - 289 north side)
• Old Brentford east central section (modern numbers 35 - 51 south side and 290 - 318 north side)
• Old Brentford Drum Lane and to the east (modern numbers 22 - 34 south side and 319 - 350 north side)
• Old Brentford Gas Works & St George's Church (modern numbers 21 south side and 351 - 375 north side)
• Old Brentford Eastern end of High Street including Salutation Almshouses (modern numbers 1 - 20 south side and 376 - 411 north side)

Ordnance Survey

• 1865 Ordnance Survey - no images online yet
• 1894 Ordnance Survey New Brentford numbers 118 - 195
• 1894 Ordnance Survey New & Old Brentford numbers 79 - 122 and 196 - 232
• 1894 Ordnance Survey Old Brentford numbers 60 - 78 and 233 - 273
• 1894 Ordnance Survey Old Brentford numbers 40 - 59 and 274 - 313
• 1894 Ordnance Survey Old Brentford numbers 21 - 36 and 318 - 367
• 1894 Ordnance Survey Old Brentford numbers 1 - 20 and 368 - 411

1909/10 Valuation Returns

The Field Books include a number of small sketches used to illustrate the range of properties on each plot and to show rights of way etc. The maps and Field Books are held at The National Archives (TNA), Kew.

I have not been able to locate the map showing the eastern part of Old Brentford: this map covered parts of Surrey; the map at TNA includes property refs for the Surrey properties but not the Middlesex properties.

This site does not include copies of the Valuation Return maps but OS maps from the same date are available.

If you are interested in whom owned a property and a brief description of it, see the summaries by house no. and surname of owner. I am in the process of adding details from the 1909/10 Valuation to each property's notes.

1925 Street Map

1930 Map

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Last updated: November 2010