Maps of Islington

Maps of Islington

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A Survey of the Land belonging to the HOSPITAL for the Maintenance & Education of Exposed & Deserted young Children

1 : 1680 This is a 19th-Century copy of an original topographical drawing by Newton of the land belonging to the Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury. The scale bars, keys to colour and fields measurements appear in a table below the plan. Thomas Coran founded the hospital in 1741, after years of philantropic work among underprivileged children. Originally in Hatton Garden, the hospital moved in 1742 to the site on Lamb's Conduit Fields after the 6,500 purchase of 56 acres of land from the Earl of Salisbury. Newton, P. W.
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London VII.43 - OS London Town Plan

1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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A X mass1686.

1 : 408 This plan is drawn on vellum and dates from 1752. It records the plans and ground rents of many individual dwellings in Great and Little Ormond Street, Red Lyon Street, Lamb's Conduit Street and Millman Street. The plan is flanked by corresponding tables listing the annual rents and expiration dates of the leases. The title and scale bar are presented in decorative cartouches and the compass rose is treated in the same ornametal fashion with gold detailing. In many of the dwelling outlines ''peppercorn'' is written under the name of the occupant, referring to a low rent. Below the title is the following inscription: A Lease of the Undermenshoned ground was granted to Dr Nick Barton by the ffeofees of Rugby School for 50: y.rs at 50:P ann. And some-time after the Dr. Assigns ye same to S.r W.m Milman Kt. And in 1720 by a decree in Chanceryye. Ffeofees did Grant to S.r W.m a [cant read] term of 43 y: from the expira:n of ye beformenshond Lease at 60P ann which sd. last lease will expire at X mass 1779. Robins, T.
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Insurance Plan of London North District Vol. D: sheet 6

1 : 480 This detailed 1901 plan of London is one of a series of twenty 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 North District Vol. D: sheet 5

1 : 480 This detailed 1901 plan of London is one of a series of twenty 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 of the intended IMPROVEMENTS, on the Estate of his Grace the Duke of BEDFORD. 1800 16

1 : 2784 The area of Bloomsbury represented in this plan has been part of the metropolitan estate of the Russell family, the Earls and Dukes of Bedford since the 17th century. Many of the names of the streets and squares reflect this connection. The plan shows the old British Museum simply marked ''museum'', Russell Square, Brunswick Square, Tavistock Square, Nursery Ground are all indicated as green spaces. Bloomsbury square is marked by a pecked line and coloured green. Bedford house has become Bedford Place, constructed in 1801-5 by James Burton. Under the 6th Duke of Bedford the area was developed north and east, principally by James Burton and Thomas Cubitt. The resulting squares became a favourite area for writers and painters. Neele
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PLAN Showing INTENDED BUILDINGS between RUSSELL SQUARE and the NEW ROAD

This is a plan of the proposed housing development on the Duke of Bedford's Estate in Bloomsbury, with title and compass at top left, proposed new buildings in pink, and public squares and open spaces in green. With Covent Garden, Bloomsbury was one of the two estates of the Earls and Dukes of Bedford in London. Famous for its squares and terraced houses, developed during the 18th- and early-19th centuries, the estate attracted professional and academic tenants. Hullmandel
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London VII.44 - OS London Town Plan

1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Insurance Plan of London North District Vol. D: sheet 2

1 : 480 This detailed 1901 plan of London is one of a series of twenty 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 of an Estate belonging to the MASTERS,GOVERNORS and TRUSTEES of the BEDFORD CHARITY Situated in the Parishes of St. Andrew Holborn and St. George the Martyr IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX 1803 29

1 : 1596 Plan of the property belonging to the Bedford Charity in Bloomsbury.
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Insurance Plan of London Vol. VIII: sheet 205

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 North District Vol. D: sheet 3

1 : 480 This detailed 1901 plan of London is one of a series of twenty 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 PARISHES OR DIVISION OF St Giles in the Fields And ST. GEORGE, BLOOMSBURY. 1815 2

1 : 2400 Different pastel colours describe the Parish divisions within St. Giles in the Fields and St. George's, Bloomsbury. A plan of the Burial Ground and Chapel of St. Giles in the Field, adjoining the church yard of St Pancreas, is located in a separate border. Montagu House was sold in 1755 to house the British museum. It was demolished to make way for Smirke''s building in the 1840''s. Hewitt, N.R.
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To the Most Noble JOHN, DUKE OF BEDFORD. This Plan of the United Parishes of ST. GILES in the FIELDS & ST. GEORGE, BLOOMSBURY, 4

1 : 444 This map is dedicated to the Duke of Bedford as this area was the primary metropolitan estate of the Earls ans Dukes of Bedford. Russell was the family name of the Dukes of Bedford, hence Russell Square. Bedford house, built for the 3rd Earl of Bedford in 1586, lay adjacent to Montague house, later to be the British Museum, until 1705-6 when it was demolished. In the lower left hand corner is a vignette of a statue of a Duke of Bedford. A birds eye view of the British Museum and a view of the College of Surgeons are also included as is a statue of C.J Fox right hon, the orator. Wyld, James
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Insurance Plan of London: sheet 6

This detailed 1889 plan of London is one of a series of 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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London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.6 (includes: Finsbury; Holborn; Islington; St Pancras) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (First Editions c1850s) XXVI (includes: Finsbury; Holborn; Islington; St Pancras) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Collins' Illustrated Atlas of London with 7000 references, in 36 plates of the principal routes between St. Paul's and the suburbs, from a survey made expressly for this work, by R. Jarman

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Insurance Plan of London North District Vol. D (Key C): sheet 3-1

1 : 480 This detailed 1901 plan of London is one of a series of twenty 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 of the City's Estate in Tottenham Court Road

This plan shows a proposed new street near Bedford Square on land owned by the City of London.In the notes on the left side of the sheet the rationale behind the different colours is explained.Gentlemen's houses are to be built with gardens, at the opposite end of which will be houses for shopkeepers.The shops will have large fronts opening on to Tottenham Court Road.The rear wall of the shop keepers houses are to have no lights or other openings, presumably so as not to overlook the gardens of the gentlemen. Metcalf, R.
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A Mapp of ST. ANDREWS HOLBORN Parish As well within the Liberty as without. Taken from the last Survey, with Corrections and Enlargements. Part A0

1 : 3600 Plan of the Parish of St Andrew's, Holborn from the 1720 edition of Stow's survey of England. The plan features title in ornamental cartouche at top right and reference table down the left side of the plate. Lincolns Inn, one of the four Inns of Court, is shown in elevation. A pecked line encloses the parish. Blome, Richard
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A MAPP of the PARISH of ST GILES'S in the Fields taken from the last Servey, with Corrections and Additions 1-A

1 : 2748 Plan of the parish of St Giles's from the 1720 edition of Stowe's Survey of England. The plan features title in banner at top left, reference table down the right side of the plate, with compass and scale bar at bottom left. The boundaries of the parish are indicated by a pecked line. Blome, Richard
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London VII.53 - OS London Town Plan

1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London VII.54 - OS London Town Plan

1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Plan of the British Museum as built by Sir Smirke, Robert. Ground Floor] 20-

1 : 636 This plan shows the ground floor of the British Museum built by Robert Smirke. The plan shows the galleries lay out and their usage: Miscellaneous Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, Phigalian Marbles. Three of the four wings of the ground floor are taken up by books in the British Museum Library which later became the British Library. Basire, James
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LONDON and WESTMINSTER in the Reign of QUEEN ELIZABETH, Anno Dom. 1563 25

This retrospective map of Elizabethan London was produced in the 1820s. It provides us with an idea of how people in the19th century viewed the Elizabethan city. The location of Tower Bridge is indicated on this map, even though plans for the actual bridge were not made until 1879. Neele, George
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NEW and ACCURATE PLAN of the CITY of WESTMINSTER, The DUTCHY of LANCASTER and Places Adjacent

1 : 11520 The title of this map appears in cartouche at top right, with a compass rose at top left. A territory with its own courts and administration, the Duchy of Lancaster was created in 1267 by Edward III for his younger son John. The Duchy was attached to the Crown when Prince Henry of Bolingbroke, the last Duke of Lancaster, became Henry IV in 1399. To this day, the Duchy has retained its own jurisdiction under the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.The chancellorship is a high governmental position, and sometimes a cabinet poist. Since, for at least the last two centuries, the Chancellor rarely has had any significant duties pertaining to the Duchy's management, he is usually available as a minister without portfolio. Recent Chancellors have included Labour cabinet minister Mo Mowlam.
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A NEW and ACCURATE PLAN of the CITY of WESTMINSTER The DUTCHY of LANCASTER and Places Adjacent

John Rocque developed his surveying talent at a young age, making plans of the great houses and gardens of the nobility.This early experience led to him taking up large-scale surveying, producing plans such as this one of Westminster. Here, Tottenham Court and Marylebone are mostly fields but Westminster has grown sufficiently to demand the construction of a new bridge.Westminster Bridge was opened in 1750 and watermen were paid 163;25,000 in compensation as the new bridge made them largely redundant. The Chelsea Water Works Company, shown south of Totthill Fields, was set up to improve water supply to Westminster and "parts adjacent".The Company were the first to introduce slow sand filtration to purify Thames water. Rocque, John
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LONDON FERACISSIMI ANGLIAE REGNI METROPOLIS

The title of this map of London appears at the top of the plate, flanked by Tudor and city arms. A note on the history of London features at bottom left and on the Steelyard at bottom right. Illustrated figures of merchants appear at bottom centre. Published in 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the map is similar in detail to the 'Copperplate Map', the earliest printed map of London of which no complete copy survives. Merchant ships, cranes, mills, bull and bear baiting pits, the large tennis courts at Westminster and the stags in St. James’s are examples of London business and leisure activities. Walled gardens, elegant churches and livery halls testify to the high quality of life enjoyed by its citizens. Braun, Georg & Hogenberg, Frans
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A New PLAN of the CITY and LIBERTY of WESTMINSTER, Exhibiting all the New Streets & Roads, with the Residences of the Principal Nobility, Public Offices, &c. Not extant in any other Plan.

This map is by Thomas Jeffreys, an exceptional cartographer and publisher whose productions, including maps of North America, are considered to be among the finest of his age. This map shows the new developments in Westminster by use of a colour coding system indicating varying stages of completion. Portman Square (W1), a contemporary development, was begun the year before this map was published. It was built between 1764 and 84 for the landlord Henry William Portman on what was then considered the outskirts of town. Thomas Jeffreys
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