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| 1811 |
| | Mortlake’s two small breweries merge as a single business | |
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| 18267 |
| | J.M.W. Turner paints two views of the terrace at Mortlake belonging to the Limes, for its owner William Moffatt | |
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| 1827 |
| | William Cobbett leases the Home Farm of the Barn Elms estate | |
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| 182731 |
| | William Cobbett engages in experimental farming methods on the Barn Elms farm, and the publicity generated by his activities causes it to become known as Cobbett’s Farm | |
| | Cobbett's Farm, on the Barn Elms estate
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| 1846 April |
| | Work begins on a station at Barnes, which is now the only survivor of the five original stations on the new railway line from Nine Elms to Richmond | |
| | Barnes railway station, built in 1846-7
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| 1846 July22 |
| | The first train on the new London and South Western Railway line from Nine Elms passes through Barnes on its way to a rapturous arrival in Richmond, with a brass band and church bells ringing | |
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| 1852 |
| | The church of St Mary Magdalen in Mortlake, designed in Gothic style by Gilbert Blount, is completed | |
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| 1852 |
| | The Mortlake brewery, after passing through several hands, is acquired by the Phillips family | |
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| 1857 |
| | The old Cromwell House is demolished and a new one, designed by Robert Philip Pope, is completed by June 1858 | |
| | Old Cromwell House, Mortlake
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| 1860s |
| | Mortlake’s brewery becomes prosperous through contracts supplying beer (India Pale Ale) to the British army in India | |
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