Maps of Westminster

Maps of Westminster

$title$

Insurance Plan of London Vol. X: sheet 284r-1

1 : 480 This detailed 1889 plan of London is one of a series of thirty-five 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
$title$

Insurance Plan of London Vol. X: sheet 284r-4

1 : 480 This detailed 1889 plan of London is one of a series of thirty-five 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
$title$

Insurance Plan of London Vol. X: sheet 284r-2

1 : 480 This detailed 1889 plan of London is one of a series of thirty-five 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
$title$

THE ROYAL GARDENS VAUXHALL FOR SALE BY Mr. Leifchild

This plan was produced for the sale of the Royal Gardens in 1842. The title and compass star feature at top centre. Opened in 1660, the Vauxhall Royal Gardens (or Spring Gardens as they were called until 1785) were for years a popular venue for exhibitions, concerts of popular music and firework displays. When the owners went bankrupt in 1840, the gardens were closed, the site sold and the furniture auctioned. Grieve, John
$title$

Insurance Plan of London Vol. X: sheet 284r-5

1 : 480 This detailed 1889 plan of London is one of a series of thirty-five 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
$title$

London XI.3 - OS London Town Plan

1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
$title$

An exact Survey of the City's of London Westminster, ye Borough of Southwark and the country near ten miles round; begun in 1741 and ended in 1745, by J. Rocque; and engrav'd by R. Parr, 1746.

John Rocque
$title$

PLAN OF an ESTATE SITUATE AT MILLBANK WESTMINSTER belonging to THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY.

1 : 1440 South of Tothill Fields lies the estate of The Marquis of Salisbury.The estate had about 30 tenants, each of whom are recorded in a reference list in the top right hand corner.This plan has been copied from an original in the possession of the Commission for Woods and Forests. Land use is indicated by various shades of green and stippling.
$title$

London (1915- Numbered sheets) IX.2 (includes: Lambeth St Mary; Southwark) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
$title$

London (Edition of 1894-96) LXXXIX (includes: Lambeth St Mary; Southwark) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
$title$

London (First Editions c1850s) LV (includes: Lambeth St Mary; Southwark) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
$title$

Insurance Plan of London Vol. X: Key Plan

1 : 480 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1889 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
$title$

Insurance Plan of London: sheet 2

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
$title$

Plan of the Road through Westminster and Tutthill Fields & from St. James's Park Gate by Buckingham House & from Hyde Park Corner to a Bridge that is desired to be made over the Thames 1768 27

This engraved plan shows the road through Tutthill Fields in Westminster leading to the new bridge at Vauxhall.The plan's title features in banner at top left, with compass star at bottom right.The proposed new road stippled and highlighted in colour.
$title$

Map SHEWING THE IMPROVEMENTS Now in Progress at the WEST END OF LONDON

1 : 3840 The title of this plan of Hanover Square and the Parish of St George appears with the publisher's imprint at lower right. Compass star and scale bars are featured at top left. The plan shows Buckingham Palace and additions made in the Regency period to the street plan. The Parish of St. George was established in 1725 and extended from Regent Street (then called Swallow Street) to the Serpentine, and from Oxford Street to include the whole of Mayfair, Belgravia and Pimlico. Ward, E. T.
$title$

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.
$title$

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
$title$

London XI.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
$title$

Surrey III.SW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
$title$

MAP of the GROSVENOR ESTATE (tinted pink) as it was in the Year 1723. with the intended Streets about Grosvenor Square.

1 : 5592 The title of this plan features at top right, with compass star at middle right and explanatory note at bottom right. The boundaries of the St George parish are outlined in red, with the properties in the estate in pink, and parks and open spaces in green. The plan shows the proposed new street plans for Grosvenor Square, but not the Chelsea waterworks,which featured in the original drawing from which this print was produced.
$title$

LONDINUM Vulgo LONDON

This later edition of Braun & Hogenberg's map of London and Westminster was published in Janssen's 'Illustrorem Principumque Urbium Septentrionalium Europae'. The map's title appears in a cartouche at the foot of the plate, replacing the figures of merchants of the first edition. Tudor arms feature top right, with city arms at top left and descriptive notes to the bottom right and bottom left. 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's 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
$title$

A PLAN of HYDE-PARK with the CITY and LIBERTIES of WESTMINSTER &c. Shewing the several IMPROVEMENTS propos'd

This plan shows renovations in Hyde Park and around Westminster.Two Royal palaces have been planned, in Hyde Park and Green Park. The red lines show an intention to regularize the street plan, replacing the narrow irregular streets with a gridlike formation. Gwynn, John
$title$

Charles Booth's descriptive map of London poverty 1889

Charles Booth
$title$

Grundstriss der Statt LONDON wie solche vor und nach dem Brand anzuschen sampt dem Newen Model wie selbige wid rum Auffgebauwet werden solle

This is a map of London immediately after the great fire of 1666. The map was first published by the Merian Heirs of Frankfurt in 1677, appearing in the anthology "Theatri Europei". The title appears in a scroll along the top, flanked by royal and city arms. Notes on shading and an inset plan of Robert Hooke’s designs for rebuilding the city appear in another scroll at the foot of the plate. Hooke's plan is given with its own key and reference table.
$title$

PLATTE GRONDT DER STADT LONDON MET NIEUW MODEL EN HOE DIE AFGEBRANDT IS

This later edition of the Frederick de Wit's 1666 plan features minor alterations to the title and some additions on the outskirts of the city. The map's title appears along the top, with the key to parish churches (in scrolls) at top left and top right and dividers at top right. An engraving depicting the city on fire is inset at bottom right. Below the plan, a description of the fire is reported in Dutch and French. This edition of the map shows cherubs holding the reference tables and a waterman with oars leaning against the view of the city. Wit, Frederick de
$title$

LONDON 206

This plan for a survey of London was published in Volume VIII of ‘Encyclopaedia Londinensis' in 1814. The plan's title appears above the plan, with a compass star at the top right. St. Paul's Cathedral and other prominent buildings are shown pictorially, with other places of interest indicated by numbers. Jones, George
$title$

PLATTE GRONDT DER STADT LONDON MET AENWYSINGHE HOE DIE AFGEBRANDT

This map was published in Amsterdam after the great fire of 1666. The title appears along the top of the manuscript, with the key to parish churches (in scrolls) at top left and top right, and dividers at top right. An engraving of the great fire is inset at bottom right, entitled "BRANDENT LONDON". Below the plan, the fire is described in Dutch and French. Wit, Frederick de
$title$

PLAN OF WESTMINSTER. No III

The area shaded red represents the extent of Westminster as defined in the Letters Patent of 3 August 1604. Basire, J.
$title$

PLATTE GRONDT Der Verbrande Stadt LONDON

This map was published in Amsterdam aftermath the great fire of 1666. The title in a banner at top right, flanked by City and Royal arms. The design for rebuilding the City is inset in a panel at top left, with an engraved view of the fire in a banner at bottom centre. Below the plan is a description of the fire in Dutch, French and English with a key to streets and buildings. Doornick, Marcus Willemsz
$title$

PLAN OF WESTMINSTER. No II

This map is highlighted to give a retrospective view of the extent of Westminster. Represented in blue is the territory of Westminster according to the Decretal of AD1222 , while the red outline shows the present boundary. The green and yellow outlines indicate manor boundaries. Basire, J.
© MapTiler © OpenStreetMap contributors
How does it work?
These instructions will show you how to find historical maps online.
Getting started
Type the place name in the search box to find the exact location. You can further adjust the search by zooming in and out.
Zoom
Zoom in and out with the buttons or use your mouse or touchpad natively.
Exact Area tool
Click here and draw a rectangle over the map to precisely define the search area.
Set filters
Narrow your search with advanced settings, such as Years (from/to), Fulltext, Publisher, etc.
Results
See the results of your search on the right side. You can scroll down to find more maps of this location.
?

Download OldMapsOnline Mobile