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A Plan of the Property that was sold in the Strand & Chandos Street June 25th 1830

The lots to be sold are highlighted in pink and blue. Ingrey, C.
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PLAN OF THE Proposed Improvements at CHARING CROSS, ST. ST MARTIN'S LANE AND Entrance to the Strand

1 : 3600 This plan shows the proposed sites for the National Gallery and the Royal Academy. Basire, James
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Plan of the Great Mews, now Trafalgar Square

1 : 468 This detailed plan shows the houses and stables in what is now Trafalgar Square (indicated on the plan as the Great Mews), recording the ownership of each property. The plan shows the Crown Stables for the State Horses on the site where the National Gallery now stands. Chawner, Thomas
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Insurance Plan of London Vol. VIII: sheet 188

1 : 480 This detailed 1888 plan of London is one of a series of twenty-six sheets in an atlas 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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Plan of the property of Lady Acheson, Moor's Yard, St. Martin's Lane, and the Strand. 1689

1 : 264 This is a copy made by Crace in 1842 of a plan in the Gough Collection. Crace liked to have copies of maps even if they were only tracings. This plan shows the properties of a Lady Acheson, with the names of tenants recorded in each case. Frederick Crace
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Plan of the Estate in Castle Street, Orange Street and Orange Court

1 : 240 Plan of an estate near Leicester Square divieded into lots. The plan features title and scale bar at lower right and reports the names of landlords and tenants for each lot.
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PLAN OF THE CHARING CROSS & STRAND IMPROVEMENTS 1832

Trafalgar Square is indicated in this plan of Charing Cross as King William Square. The National Gallery of Painting and Sculpture is also indicated on the plan. Founded in 1824, the National Gallery was initially housed in a building in Pall Mall until a more suitable one was built on the north side of Trafalgar Square in 1832-38 to a design by William Wilkins. Wyld, James
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London VII.73 - OS London Town Plan

1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Drawn Plan of a new Street from Piccadilly to King Street, Covent Garden

1 : 960 A 19th Century copy of a plan in the Gough Collection, Oxford, dating back to 1766 and showing the new streets connecting Piccadilly to King Street in Covent Garden, London.
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Insurance Plan of London Vol. VIII: sheet 182

1 : 480 This detailed 1888 plan of London is one of a series of twenty-six sheets in an atlas 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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Insurance Plan of London Vol. VIII: sheet 183

1 : 480 This detailed 1888 plan of London is one of a series of twenty-six sheets in an atlas 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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Insurance Plan of London Vol. IX: sheet 211

1 : 480 This detailed 1889 plan of London is one of a series of twenty-seven sheets in an atlas 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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A plan, in Indian ink, of the Adelphi Terrace and the adjoining streets; drawn on a scale of 30 feet to an inch

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Insurance Plan of London Vol. VIII: sheet 180

1 : 480 This detailed 1888 plan of London is one of a series of twenty-six sheets in an atlas 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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Plan of Suffolk Street, Haymarket and adjoining Property between Cockspur Street and Whitcomb Street.

Plan of the Royal Theatre at Haymarket before the alterations of 1820-21. Chawner, Thomas
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General Plan, shewing the whole line of the Proposed New Street to the British Museum

1 : 4800 A plan of the proposed street running to the British Museum in Bloomsbury. Ingrey & Madeley's
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A Plan of the intended improvements from Charing Cross to Bedford Square

A plan of intended improvements from Charing Cross to Bedford Square. Sawyer, Henry
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A MAPP of the Parish of St MARTINS in the FIELDS, taken from ye last survey, with Additions By Blome, Richard.

1 : 3600 This plan of the parish of St Martins in the Fields shows the Banqueting House at Whitehall, the New Exchange on the Strand and Northumberland House.Near the top of the plate, the southern part of today's Leicester Square is indicated with the name of Leicester Fields. The equestrian statue of Charles I is depicted at Charing Cross. A pecked line marks the boundaries with the neighbouring parishes of St James and St Giles. Blome, Richard
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London &c. actually survey'd by Wm. Morgan

Ogilby, John
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PART of WESTMINSTER at large shewing the IMPROVEMENTS propos'd about LEICESTER-FIELDS, COVENT-GARDEN, the MEWSE & c.

Trafalgar Square is named Kings Square on this plan and Leicester Square is called Leicester Fields. The new plan is superimposed on the layout of the old. Red lines show new streets in a grid-like formation replacing older and narrower streets and buildings. Gwynn, John
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A Map of the PARISH of ST. PAUL COVENT GARDEN, Shewing the site of BEDFORD HOUSE & GROUNDS. From a Survey, made by WILLIAM LYBORN, in the Year 1686.

1 : 960 A pecked line marks the parish boundary of St Paul's, Covent Carden. Covent Garden was the metropolitan estate of the Russell family: the earls and dukes of Bedford. Bedford House, built in 1586 for the third earl of Bedford, appears to have been an important boundary marker. The development of the area in the 1630s saw it become the first suburb outside the City to be financed by the leasehold system and regulated by building covenants. These factors, combined with Inigo Jones' architecture, made Covent Garden a prototype which was aspired to for the next 250 years. Lyborn, William
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Schetch for the Situation of a Palace at Whitehall the better to Settle that of a Bridge and of a Road to it

Plan of a proposed new palace at Whitehall with key down the left side of the plate.
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Plan D. PROPOSED NEW STREET from COVENTRY STREET to LONG ACRE. As Revised June 1840.

1 : 852 This plan was ordered by the House of Commons and is titled in the top right border ''FIRST REPORT ON METROPOLIS IMPROVEMENTS - 1840''. It shows the extension of Longacre into Leicester Square, beyond to Princes Street and the widening of Upper St Martin's Lane. The areas coloured pink are those thatneed to be destroyed to make way for the improvements.
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A MAPP of the Parish of St PAULS COVENT GARDEN taken from the last Survey By Blome, Richard

Richard Blome was the acting editor of Stow's Survey at this time. Pecked lines show parish boundaries. Bedford House and garden appear on this map. Built in 1586 to replace the Earls of Bedford's earlier mansion on the south side of the Strand, it was demolished in 1706, making way for Southampton Street, Tavistock Street and Tavistock Row. Covent Garden was the metropolitan estate of the Earls and Dukes of Bedford, whose family name was Russell. They later came to own much of Bloomsbury, hence the name of Russell Square. Blome, Richard
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A Plan of the Parish of St Paul's Covent Garden

This is a 19th-Century copy of a map from the beginning of the previous century. It shows Old Bedford House in the Strand. Individual houses around the piazza in Covent Garden are numbered. The New Exchange is marked on the Strand. This was a very smart shopping arcade completed in 1609, taking over much of the trade of the Royal Exchange after it was destroyed in the Great Fire. Historian and biographer John Strype described it in 1720 as ''a place of great resort and trade for the nobility and gentry.''
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Drawn Plan of the Property around Leicester Square

1 : 1200 Drawn plan of thr properties around Leicester Square showing the proposed changes to the street plan in red ink and facades of new buildings in elevation at the top and down the left side of the plate.
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A reduced copy of FISHER'S GROUND PLAN of the ROYAL PALACE of WHITEHALL, taken in the Reign of CHARLES 2d 1680.

This plan of the Royal Palace was published in the early 19th century, but is actually a copy of a plan dating from 1680. A black star shows where King Charles I was beheaded in the January of 1649, after he was convicted of treason by Parliament. Smith, John Thomas
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Plan of Spring Gardens, with Improvements and Additions.] 1

1 : 456 Plan of the proposed improvements to the Spring gardens in St James's. The gardens were known for the Great Room, used throughout the 18th century as an exhibition room, museum and concert hall. Chawner, Thomas
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Insurance Plan of London Vol. VIII: sheet 189

1 : 480 This detailed 1888 plan of London is one of a series of twenty-six sheets in an atlas 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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Plan Proposed for WIDENING THE STRAND in the Vicinity of EXETER 'CHANGE.

1 : 720 This plan was ordered by the House of Commons.The Exeter Exchange (or 'Change') was an arcade of luxury shops. Beside the areas of proposed renovation, a glass-roof bazaar is shown. Buildings would have to be demolished to make way for this feature. A note in the margins reports that the plan is taken from the "FIFTH REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF HIS MAJESTY'S WOODS, FORESTS, AND LAND REVENUE - 1826." Arrowsmith, A.
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