Convenience map

The Rifleman had decorated one of its walls with a large old map of the area, of which the bit showing where we live is reproduced left for the convenience of readers, here including myself. We live roughly where the 'P' of Horton Place is.

One gets the impression that this part of Surrey was mainly occupied by a scatter of small stately homes, interspersed with rent paying farms. Plus a bit of trade brought in by the railways - with the price they paid for their land more than compensating for the loss of rents from the farms.

And I was impressed by our bit of Epsom being about 200 feet above sea level and more than 50 feet above Ewell. We really are on the approach to the north downs. But see also the 200 feet mentioned at reference 2: by the year 3,000 we might be fisher folk, living in hovels just above a much enlarged Thames estuary, scratching a living from the jelly fish and whatever else manage to thrive in the then warm and dirty seas. And having to put up with all those people who had had to ship out of Ewell and places further afield. Migrants, in a word.

Not quite sure about the join running across the bottom of the map, just above Epsom, but it looks like the result of the wallpaper people sticking together two contiguous but not quite matching sheets from the map people.

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/03/sacconi-two.html. For another map used as décor. Rather more difficult to execute, but perhaps not as useful as that above.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/09/a-message-from-plos.html.

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