Epsom — Epsom Map Poster & Print

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Epsom Map Poster & Print

From above, Epsom looks like two landscapes stitched together. The town centre is a dense knot of streets gathered around the High Street and its clock tower, with residential roads fanning out in curves and cul-de-sacs. To the south the pattern thins, and the map opens onto the broad, almost empty chalk grassland of Epsom Downs, crossed only by a few roads and the racecourse rails.

Two facts carry the name far beyond Surrey. Epsom Downs Racecourse hosts the Derby, one of the oldest and most famous flat races in the world, and the town lent its name to Epsom salts, drawn from a mineral spring on the common in the seventeenth century. Both stories are written into the land: the spa led to the town's early growth, and the racecourse still dominates the southern map.

Beyond the centre, large green spaces break up the street network. Epsom Common spreads to the west as woodland and heath, while railway lines slice through the suburbs towards London. An Epsom map poster shows that balance clearly, a small town whose built-up core is framed on several sides by open ground, drawn in fine black lines against white paper.