Maps of Tower Hamlets

Maps of Tower Hamlets

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Stratford - Le - Bow

1 : 21120 This plan of north east London extends from the Isle of Dogs and Wapping at the bottom, to 'Layton Stone' and Epping Forest at the top. Field boundaries infilled with stripes depict tilled land. Major settlements are drawn in red ink. North of Stoke Newington, to the top left, a road is plotted as a series of fixed points pricked off with dividers and joined by ruled pencil lines. These protractions were made directly from the Ordnance Survey field books. Pencil rays intersect across the map, evidence of measurements taken by the surveyor between fixed triangulation points. Poplar Gut is outlined in red at the Isle of Dogs, the beginnings of the development of the West India Docks.
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Plan of the roads and main objects on the eastern part of London : as connected with the tunnel excavating under the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping

1 : 48000 Brunel, Marc Isambard, Sir, 1769-1849 H. Teape & Son
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Plan showing the sewers in Tower Hamlets, 1843

From 1807, the East End was supplied with water pumped from the River Lea at Bow by the East London Waterworks Company. This was not, however, the continuous flow of water we take for granted today. Dr John Simon wrote, in 1849, of the thousands who "wholly depend on their power of attending at some fixed hour of the day, pail in hand, beside the nearest standcock; where, with their neighbours, they wait their turn; sometimes not without a struggle, during the tedious dribbling of a single small pipe. Household rubbish was piled into heaps in the street and outdoor toilets drained into cesspits. The survey of sanitation in Bethnal Green made by Hector Gavin in 1848 paints a sorry picture. Knightly Court was typical of the streets he visited: "In it there are two privies in a beastly state, full, and the contents overflowing into the court. There is one dust reservoir. One stand-tap supplies the seven houses; two cases of severe typhus lately occurred here, one died." This map of 1843 shows the distribution of sewers through the East End. They carried only surface water, contaminated with decayed rubbish from the streets and excrement from overflowing cesspits, and discharged it directly into the Thames - from which water companies pumped their drinking water. James Beek
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TQ38 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Essex LXXIII - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Insurance Plan of London East District Vol. G: Key Plan

1 : 3600 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1900 series of fire insurance maps of London that were originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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London

Grosser Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde in 170 Karten Meyer, J. Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts
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An exact survey of the city's of London Westminster , III

1 Blatt : 53 x 71 cm John Rocque
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The Merchants' Plan of the London Docks, by D. Alexander, 1796; with the Stations for Ships in the River

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Rowe's map of London, westminster and Southwark, exhibiting the various improvements to the year 1804, detail showing the London and west india Docks

A canal and the two West India docks now cut across the neck of the Isle of Dogs to provide shipping with a shortcut across its marshy peninsular. A wall around its edge holds back the tidal Thames while windmills on the windy west side pump water from the marsh. As industry spreads, wealthy residents are lured away to the fashionable new suburbs rising to the west of London. Turnpikes appear, on the Hackney Road for example: an indication of the growing need for good roads and the money to maintain them. From the tangle of older streets, the line of the proposed new Commercial Road shoots straight across the open fields. Rowe
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Post office plan of London

Wyld, James, 1812-1887 Ja.s Wyld
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FAIRBURN'S PLAN of the proposed WET-DOCKS AND CUT from NEW GRAVEL LANE to BLACKWALL

1 : 16896 The plan's title and publisher's imprint appear at bottom left, with a compass star, key and scale bar at bottom centre.The boundary of the area to be developed is highlighted in red. After a Parliamentary Select Committee in 1796 condemned the congestion at the Port of London, a number of large-scale projects for new docking and shipping facilities were submitted to Parliament. Fairburn's plan illustrates the London merchants' scheme. It consists of an entrance dock that could accommodate 33 loaded ships, two main docks that would accommodate a total of 355 ships and a separate dock for lighters. The plan also included the creation of the 2" 3/4 mile long cut from Wapping to Blackwall. An improved version of this scheme would eventually materialise as the London Docks. Fairburn, John
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Map of London from an Actual Survey

Map of London printed in six sheets from a survey made during the period 1824-26.The map featurestitle and imprint at top right, dedication to King George IV at bottom centre, view of Westminster Abbeywith key to symbols at bottom left and view of St Paul's Cathedral with key to lines at bottom right. Greenwood, Christopher and John
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LONDON 1849 DRAWN & ENGRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR THE POST OFFICE DIRECTORY

This map has been engraved for the Post Office Directory. It is the third edition of a map originally published in 1847. Davis, Benjamin Rees
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PLAN OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER with the Borough of SOUTHWARK Being an INDEX to the Large Plan in forty Sheets

This folding map of London was originally published by Faden in 1818 as an index to Harwood's famous map of Regency London. This is a later edition of the map, issued by Wyld when he took over Faden's publishing business. The title, explanation and scale bar feature at top right. The boundaries of London, Westminster, Southwark, Lambeth, Marylebone, Finsbury and Tower Hamlets are outlined in colour. The map is divided into squares with letters and numbers for reference along the margins for reference, with an interpretive key in panel below the plan. Faden, William
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LONDON AND WESTMINSTER with the Borough of SOUTHWARK Being an INDEX to the Large Plan in forty sheets 231

The title, explanatory notesand scale bar of this folding mapappear at top right. The map is divided into squares, with letters and numbers for referencealong the margins. A key appears in a panel below the plan. Originally published by Faden in 1818 as an index to Harwood's famous map of Regency London,the map was reissued by James Wyld when he took over Faden's publishing business in the late 1820s. Faden, William
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LONDON 269

This map of Victorian London was produced for publication in the Post Office Directory of 1852. The map's title and imprint appear at top right. It shows the entire London railway system. With the exception of Blackfriars and Marylebone stations, all London termini were built in the between 1736and 1876. As the railway companies scrambled to buy land to redevelop central London, many people, mainly slum-dwellers, were left homeless or forced to move to outer suburbs like Tottenham and Edmonton. Davies, Benjamin Rees
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LONDON AND WESTMINSTER with the Borough of SOUTHWARK Being an INDEX to the Large Plan in forty sheets 219

This folding map of London was originally published as the index to Harwood's famous map of Regency London. The map features the title, imprint and scale bar at the top right and is divided into squares, with letters and numbers along the borders for reference. Faden, William
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CARY'S New and Accurate Plan of LONDON AND WESTMINSTER, the Borough of SOUTHWARK and parts adjacent 210

This title of this folding map of London appears along the top. Open spaces are depicted in colour with a reference table in a panel below the plan. This is the twelfth edition of the map first issued by Cary in 1787, updated to include several new works of the Regency period. An added sheet extends eastward to include the Isle of Dogs and the East and West India Docks. Cary, John
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ROWE'S PLAN OF LONDON, WESTMINSTER and SOUTHWARK, exhibiting the various IMPROVEMENTS, to the Year 1804 with the LONDON and WEST INDIA DOCKS

The title of this map appears along the top, with the table of reference in a panel below the plan and scale bar at bottom right. The map is divided into rectangles for reference and shows the newly built London and West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs. Designed by William Jessop, the docks were completed in 1802 allowing West India Company merchants to discharge their ships in four days instead of the usual four weeks. Rowe, Robert
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LONDON AND WESTMINSTER

The title of this map appears near the top right in a vignette depicting Father Thames, with compass rose at bottom right, scale bar at bottom centre, and an alphabetical list of streets in the table below the plan. Roads, open spaces and the built-up area within the city are depicted in colour. The boundaries of the 'Liberty’ of the Tower of London is similarly depicted in colour ('Liberty', in this sense, means an area of separate jurisdiction to the rest of the city). Finally, the map extends eastward to include the Isle of Dogs and the docks, which were then under construction. Fairburn, John
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London[Plan of]. Drawn expressly for the Post Office

Wyld, J.
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MAP of LONDON and its ENVIRONS 209

This later edition of Sherwood, Neely and Jones's 1813 original. The title appears along the top, with the publisher’s imprint and scale bar below the plan. The map shows Regents Park and the proposed new bridges at Vauxhall and Waterloo, with the Isle of Dogs and the East and West India Docks on an added sheet. Sherwood, Neely & Jones
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CROSS'S NEW PLAN OF LONDON 1828

The title of this folding map is inset in the top border, with the publisher's imprint and explanatory notes in the bottom border and a list of parishes in a table at top right. The map is divided into half-mile squares for reference, with the river, open spaces and the boundaries of London, Westminster and Southwark highlighted in different colours. Cross, Joseph
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Reynolds's map of London : with the latest improvements

1 : 16000 Martin, Henry, fl. 1830-1852 J. Reynolds
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A NEW MAP OF LONDON with the adjacent Villages Including the New Streets and Public Buildings CORRECTED TO 1832

This map of London has an added sheet extending eastward to include the docks in the Isle of Dogs. The map is divided into rectangles, with letters and numbers along the borders for reference. The key to streets, public buildings and prominent places appears in a panel below the plan.
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MAP of LONDON and its ENVIRONS 203

The title of this map appears along the top, with scale bar and imprint below the plan. It shows Regents Park and the proposed new bridges at Vauxhall and Waterloo, with the East and West India Docks in the Isle of Dogs added on a separate sheet. Sherwood, Neely & Jones
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PLAN of the CITIES OF LONDON and WESTMINSTER, with the BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK, exhibiting all the NEW BUILDINGS to the present YEAR MDCCCVI

As the 19th Century progressed, maps were often used as illustrations for general guides to London, for which there was a great demand. This map appeared in Lambert's 'History of London' of 1806. The title appears along the top with the reference table in a panel below the map. The plan extends eastward to include the East India Docks, opened in 1806. Lambert, B.
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London Sheet L - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London Sheet L - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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