Maps of Islington
Insurance Plan of London Vol. XI: sheet 304~r_2
1 : 480 This detailed 1890 plan of London is one of a series of thirty-one 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. XI: sheet 300~r_3
1 : 480 This detailed 1890 plan of London is one of a series of thirty-one 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. XI: sheet 304
1 : 960 This detailed 1890 plan of London is one of a series of thirty-one 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. XI: sheet 300-1
1 : 480 This detailed 1890 plan of London is one of a series of thirty-one 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
London VII.47 - OS London Town Plan
1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
A Map of the Parish of St. Dunstans Stepney, als. Stebunheath.
A. Churchill
London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.7 (includes: Bethnal Green; Shoreditch; Stepney) - 25 Inch Map
1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
London (Edition of 1894-96) LI (includes: Bethnal Green; Shoreditch; Stepney) - 25 Inch Map
1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
London (First Editions c1850s) XXVII (includes: Bethnal Green; Shoreditch; Stepney) - 25 Inch Map
1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
A new and exact plan of the city of London and suburbs thereof, 3
1 Blatt : 58 x 50 cm Henry Overton
Insurance Plan of London: sheet 7
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
Insurance Plan of London Vol. XI: Key Plan
1 : 4800 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1890 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
AN EXACT SURVEIGH OF THE STREETS LANES AND CHVRCHES CONTAINED WITHIN THE RVINES OF THE CITY OF LONDON FIRST DESCRIBED IN SIX PLATS
1 : 3620 This map was reduced by John Leake from a large-scale survey on six sheets produced in December 1666 to assess the damage caused by the great fire. No copy of this large scale survey has ever been found. This is the second edition of this map, Updated and issued in 1669 with a dedication to Sir William Turner, The Lord Mayor of London for that year. The map's title appears along the top of the manuscript, With the City arms and dedication at top centre. The key to buildings destroyed in the fire appears in a table at top right, With a compass star at bottom right, Scale bar and imprint at bottom left, And an illustration of the city on fire inset at top left. The location of livery halls destroyed in the fire is indicated by their respective coats of arms. Letters identify individual City wards, With ward boundaries indicated by a pecked line. Buildings outside the city walls, Undamaged by the fire, Are represented three dimensionally. Leake, John
An Actual Survey of the Parish of St. Leonard in Shoreditch, Middlesex, taken in the Year 1745 by Peter Chassereau. 4
1 : 3000 Plan of the parish of St. Leonard in Shoreditch with title in cartouche at top left, compass at top right, scale bar at bottom centre and key to streets, courts, alleys, squares etc. in table at lower right. Each field in the parish is shown with the name of the landlord or tenant and the dimensions. Chassereau
the Cittie of London 31
This map has been attributed to Augustus Ryther, an engraver who prospered between 1572 and 1592, contributing to Saxton's Atlas of 1579. This plan was produced to satisfy a European market, and contains certain inaccuracies which a native Londoner would not have tolerated. The streets appear very much wider than they were in actuality. Houses are depicted as having large gardens, when these had, in fact, begun to disappear from London two centuries before. The map details the gap at the north end of London Bridge, caused by a fire in 1632. Ryther, Augustus
The Jew in London. A study of racial character and present-day conditions.
Arkill, G.E. T. Fisher Unwin
The City of LONDON in the Time of the Saxons (about the Year 1000) compiled from the most authentic DOCUMENTS
Map of London in the reign of the Saxon King Ethelred II, with the history of Roman and Saxon London written in a panel below the plan. The map shows the Roman wall still standing, but the street plan suggests that, compared to the Roman period, the built-up area occupied a much smaller part of the walled city and that the population was in rapid decline. Wallis
Englands glory, or, the glory of England being a new mapp of the city of London : shewing the remarkable streets, lanes, alleyes, churches, halls courts, and other places as they are now rebuilt, the which will therefore be a guide to strangers, and such as are not well acquainted herein to direct them from place to place : diverse faults y[t] are in y[e] former are in this amended, allsoe the severall figures y[t] stand up and downe in the mapp are explained in y[e] 2 tables at y[e] upper corners hereof.
Walton, Robert, 1618-1688 Robert Walton
LONDON 21
This map was published in Norden's 1593 'Speculum Britanniae. The first parte. An historical and chronographical description of Middlesex'. The map is flanked by the arms of the twelve great livery companies and features title at the top with royal and city arms. The scale bar is at top right and a key to inns, churches, halls and other prominent places feature in a panel below the plan. The map was intended for countrymen visiting the city and was reissued in 1623 and 1653 with enlarged tables of reference. Norden, John
LONDON and WESTMINSTER in the Reign of QUEEN ELIZABETH Anno Dom. 1563
This is a retrospective map of Elizabethan London, giving us an idea of how people in the late 18th Century viewed the Elizabethan capital. The present-day Covent Garden is an area of fields named "Convent Garden”, indicating that the area belonged to the Abbey of St Peter's at Westminster before the dissolution of monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII. The location of Tower Bridge is marked, although the actual bridge was not planned until 1879. This indicates that Londoners were thinking about bridging the river at this point one hundred years before the decisive plan to do so. Wallis, J.
London VII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map
1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
LONDON 20
A miniature map of London and Westminster with title at the foot of the plate and areas outside the built-up area coloured green.
Newcourt's 'Map of London', detail showing the East End
Richard Newcourt’s map, made in 1658, represents the first complete survey of London since the 1550s. It shows the City and its surrounding countryside in the closing years of the Commonwealth. Though most buildings are depicted in a conventionalised way, the map gives some idea of the actual appearance of more important places, such as churches and livery halls. The inclusion of their coats of arms in the map's decoration suggests the Livery Companies may have commissioned Newcourt's work. The map provides a fairly accurate picture of the development of the City's eastern suburbs, already spreading along the roads that reached out across the countryside towards the surrounding villages. As well as being the docklands of London, this was the area where the first native English school of chartmaking, the so-called 'Thames School', was getting underway at the very time this map was made. Newcourt, Richard
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
Handy Reference Atlas of London
Edinburgh : John Bartholomew & Co.,
A Plan of London, Westminst.r and Southwark
This is derivative of Hatton's edition of Braun & Hogenberg's map-view of London. Unusually for a map of its time, most of the buildings are represented in plan instead of pictorially. The Latin text at the foot of the plate in the original are replaced by notes, in English, on the geographic and demographic growth of the city. Braun, Georg & Hogenberg, Frans
A NEW PLAN of the CITY of LONDON and BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK, Exhibiting all the New Streets & Roads &c. Not extant in any other Plan.
1 : 14080 Thomas Jeffreys was an exceptional cartographer and publisher whose productions included maps of North America, considered to be among the finest of the time.This map of the City of London and the Borough of Southwark shows important buildings such as the Tower of London and St Paul's in plan form, differing from many earlier examples, which show them in elevation. It is dedicated to the Right Honourable Lord Mayor Aldermen and to the Commissioners of the Sewers, Lamps and Pavements. Jeffreys, Thomas
LONDINUM FERACISSIMI ANGLIAE REGNI METROPOLIS
This derivative of Braun & Hogenberg's 1572 map of London was published in Belle Forest's 'La Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde'. The map's title features at the top of the plate, flanked by Tudor and city arms. Descriptive notes in French appear at bottom left and bottom right, with figures of merchants at bottom centre. 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
Plan of London, West.r and Southwark, w.th y.e Riv.r Thames, as they were survey.d and publisht by Authority toward y.e latter end of y.e reign of Queen Elizaabeth, or about y.e year of our Lord 1600.
This is the fourth edition of Braun &Hogenberg's map view of London. The title in cartouche at the foot of the plate replaces the figures of merchants from the earlier editions. Tudor arms feature at top right, with the city arms at top left and descriptive notes at bottom right and bottom left. Published in Hatton's 'A New View of London; or, an Ample Account of that City', 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
