Fifty years ago . side of Eegents Park. This line must be prolongedwest until it strikes the Edgware Eoad, and eastwarduntil it strikes the Eegents Canal, after which it followsthe Canal until it falls into the Eegents Canal is, roughly speaking, t]ie boundary of the greatcity on the north and east. Its western boundary isthe lower end of the Edgware Eoad, Park Lane, and aline drawn from Hyde Park Corner to WestminsterBridge. The river is its southern boundary, but if youwish to include the Borough, there will be a narrowfringe on the south side. This was the whole of Londonproper,
Fifty years ago . side of Eegents Park. This line must be prolongedwest until it strikes the Edgware Eoad, and eastwarduntil it strikes the Eegents Canal, after which it followsthe Canal until it falls into the Eegents Canal is, roughly speaking, t]ie boundary of the greatcity on the north and east. Its western boundary isthe lower end of the Edgware Eoad, Park Lane, and aline drawn from Hyde Park Corner to WestminsterBridge. The river is its southern boundary, but if youwish to include the Borough, there will be a narrowfringe on the south side. This was the whole of Londonproper, that is to say, not the City of London, or Londonwith her suburbs, but continuous London. If you lookat Mr. Lofties excellent map of London,^ showing theextent built upon at different periods, you will find agreater area than this ascribed to London at this is because Mr. Loftie has chosen to include manyparts which at this time were suburbs of one street, 1 \joi\ASi% History of London, Stanford, LONDON IN 1837 31 straggling houses, with fields, nurseries, and market-gardens. Thus Kennington, Brixton, and Camberwellare included. But these suburban places were not inany sense part of continuous London. Open fields andgardens were lying behind the roads ; at the north endof Kennington Common—then a dreary expanse uncaredfor and down-trodden—lay open ponds and fields; therewere fields between Yauxhall Gardens and the Oval. Ifwe look at the north of London,there were no houses round Prim-rose Hill; fields stretched north andeast; to the west one or two roadswere already pushing out, such asthe Abbey Eoad and Avenue Eoad ;through the pleasant fields of Kil-burn, where still stood the pictur-esque fragments of Kilburn Priory,the Bayswater rivulet ran pleasantly;it was joined by two other brooks,one rising in St. Johns Wood, andflowino- through what are now called Craven Gardensinto the Serpentine. On Haver stock Hill were a fewvillas ; Chalk Farm still had its
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