Maps of Westminster
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.
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.
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.
Insurance Plan of London Vol. IX: sheet 215
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
Insurance Plan of London Vol. VIII: sheet 193
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
Insurance Plan of London Vol. IX: sheet 214
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
Insurance Plan of London Vol. IX: sheet 219
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
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
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
Plan of Houses and Ground in Piccadilly, Titchborne Street and Marybone Street belonging to the Crown and Designs for widening Titchborne Street and Marybone Street
1 : 480 The plan shows Leverton's design for widening the street with a red line marking the proposed new width. A key to tenant occupiers on Titchborne Street and the terms of their leases appear in a table at the top right Chawner, Thomas
Insurance Plan of London Vol. IX: sheet 226
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
Insurance Plan of London Vol. VIII: sheet 194
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
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
Plan of Jermyn Street and Piccadilly
1 : 480 Granted by Charles II to Henry Jermyn, Earl of St Albans, in 1680, this large part of the Crown Estate became famous for its luxury hotels in the 18th century.This plan records the size, the street number and name of the tenant of each property. Chawner, Thomas
Plan for a New Outlay of the Lemon Tree public house and Stable Yard at the North West Corner of the Haymarket
1 : 240 This drawn plan of the public house shows the stables, coaching houses and hay and straw storage rooms at the back. The proposed alterations are indicated by the letter "A" near the stable yard.
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.
GROUND PLAN of an ESTATE Situate at Seven Dials in the Parish of ST.GILES in the FIELDS, Surveyed 1811 by H. LANE, 1 London Street, Fitzroy Square
1 : 300 This plan covers the area of the Seven Dials, a street formation of seven streets radiating from a central point. Thomas Neale, Master of the Mint began the development of the complex in 1693. The project was completed around 1710. In 1694 John Evelyn went to see the building work and commented on the star formation radiating from a point marked by a Doric pillar. This pillar was removed in 1773 as it had become a meeting place for criminals, partly due to a false rumour that a large sum of money had been buried at its base. Although intended as a smart residential area, it became the haunt of thieves and street vendors in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building of Shaftsbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road reduced the area to little more than a junction. Hewitt
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
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
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
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
Frontage plan in the parish of St. James, Westminster. From Report on an Enquiry and Examination into the State of the Drainage of the House situated in that part of the Parish of St. James, Westminster, in which deaths have occurred from Cholera to so great an extent.
London VII.63 - OS London Town Plan
1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
PLAN of the late Duke of PORTLAND'S Estate in the neighborhood of SOHO SQUARE - with the names (in red ink) of the Persons to whom the several parts were sold
1 : 900 The title and scale bar of this copy of White's plan appears at the foot of the plate. On the Duke's death, the estate was divided into individual properties and the names of the new landlords are indicated on the plan in red ink. White, John
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
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
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.''
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
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
