Hampton — Hampton Map Poster & Print

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Hampton Map Poster & Print

Hampton sits on the north bank of the Thames in south-west London, and from above the river is the first thing you notice. It bends past the village edge in a broad, slow curve, dotted with narrow islands and lined by moorings. Inland the streets spread in a loose pattern of older lanes and later residential roads, the kind of fabric that grew around a village long before the city arrived.

The map also shows how much of Hampton is water and open ground. Large rectangular filter beds and reservoirs of the waterworks line the riverside, their hard geometric edges contrasting with the softer lines of the Thames. To the east the wide expanse of Bushy Park opens up, and beyond it lies Hampton Court Palace, the Tudor royal residence that gives the wider area much of its fame.

A Hampton map poster keeps all of this in a single frame: the river bend, the grid of the waterworks, the green block of parkland and the quiet residential roads between them. The actor David Garrick once lived here, and his riverside temple to Shakespeare still stands by the water. In black and white the place reads as a careful balance of river, park and village.