Maps of Islington
Insurance Plan of City of London Vol. II: sheet 42
1 : 480 This detailed 1886 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
Plan of the improvements at Snowhill
1 : 1200 Snowhill is a steep hill extending from Central Markets to Holborn Viaduct. The plan shows improvements at Snowhill which predate the building of the viaduct in 1869. Woodthorpe, V.
Drawn Plan of the Property of St. Bartholomew's Hospital] 9
This is an 18th-Century copy of Ralph Treswell's plan of the property of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. A painter by trade, Treswell was also a mapmaker and one of the first surveyors of the modern era. The plan features orientation points marked on margins. The tenements in St. Bartholomew's Estate, St. Sepulchre's Churchyard, the ditch running from Smithfield Bars to the Common Shore and Smithfield are shown pictorially.
Drawn Plan of the Property of St. Bartholomew's Hospital] 9
1 : 120 This is an 18th-Century copy of Ralph Treswell's 1610 plan of the property of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. A painter by trade, Ralph Treswell was also a mapmaker and one of the first surveyors of the modern era. This plan features scale bars at bottom right and orientation points marked on margins. Private properties and tenements along Hosier Lane and the west side of Smithfield are shown pictorially.
Plan of the Six Alms-Houses on Snow-Hill of the Benefaction of Edmond Hammond ESQ
1 : 72 This plan depicts the almshouses belonging to the Haberdasher's Company, one of the City of London's livery companies. These were massive trade guilds, many of which had existed since medieval times. The date in pencil at the base of the plan ("June 10th 1805") is in the same hand as the measurements of the covered passage running from the bottom of the sheet. Cooper, J.
Proposed Plan for improving the Approaches to the Metropolitan Meat Market, Smithfield, and Railway Stations; and for reducing the Acclivities of Holborn Hill, Skinner street, etc
PLAN OF THE CITYS INTENDED IMPROVEMENT AT SNOW HILL
1 : 4800 This plan shows the widening and continuation of the road at Snow Hill. The properties within the route of expansion are numbered and lettered, indicating that they are to be purchased to allow for the development. Metcalf, R.
Insurance Plan of City of London Vol. II: sheet 46
1 : 480 This detailed 1886 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
Insurance Plan of City of London Vol. II: sheet 39-1
1 : 480 This detailed 1886 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
Property in St John's Street
Plan of properties along Greenhill Rents and Cow Cross, Clerkenwell, with inset plan at top left showing properties on St John's Street. Orientation points are marked on the borders of the sheet.
Drawn Plan of the Property of St. Bartholomew's Hospital] 9
This is an18th-Century copy of a Ralph Treswell's 1610 plan of the property of St Bartholomew's Hospital. While better known as a painter in his lifetime, Ralph Treswell was also a mapmaker and one of the first surveyors of the modern era. This plan features a compass star in the middle and a scale bar in a table at the bottom left. London's Roman wall, Christ's Hospital and the properties along the way to St. Bartholomew's Hospital are all shown pictorially.
FARRINGDON WARD without WITH ITS Divisions into Parishes taken from the last Survey with Corrections and Amendm.ts 24A
1 : 3600 This plan was published in Strype's first annotated edition of Stow's 'Survey of England'. The plan's title features in banner at the top of the plate, with a compass star at middle left. The key to streets, yards, halls, courts and private properties appears in a table at lower right, with the wards prominent buildings shown pictorially. Farringdon ward was divided into Farringon Within and Farringdon Without in 1394 because "the governance thereof is too laborious and grievous for one person to occupy and duly govern the same". Blome, Richard
London VII.55 - OS London Town Plan
1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
PLAN of the PARISH of ST. SEPULCHRE, MIDDLESEX
1 : 792 The title of this plan of a parish in Finsbury appears with the publisher's imprint and scale bars, at bottom right. The compass star is at top left. Parish boundaries are outlined in red. A note at bottom left reports the results of the census of 1821. In that year the parish had 574 houses and a population of 4740. Gardner, B. H.
Insurance Plan of City of London Vol. II: sheet 40
1 : 480 This detailed 1886 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
Insurance Plan of City of London Vol. II: sheet 45
1 : 480 This detailed 1886 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
Insurance Plan of City of London Vol. II: sheet 47
1 : 480 This detailed 1886 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
Insurance Plan of City of London Vol. II: sheet 38
1 : 480 This detailed 1886 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
Drawn Plan of the Grey Friars Precinct
This is an 18th-Century copy of Ralph Treswell's 1610 survey of the Precinct of Grey Friars. Although better known as painter in his lifetime, Ralph Treswell was also a mapmaker and one of the first land surveyors of the modern era. The plan features compass star at top centre. The London Wall, Christ Church and Cloisters, private tenements, and the market on Newgate Street are all shown pictorially.
FARRINGDON WARD without WITH ITS Divisions into Parishes taken from the last Survey with Corrections and Amendm.ts 26
1 : 3600 This plan was published in William Maitland's 'History of London from its Foundation to the Present Time'. The plan's title features in cartouche at top left, with the heraldic arms of dedicatee Richard Beckford, the ward Alderman, at top centre. A view of Temple Bar appears at top right, with view of Bridewell North Gate next to the compass star at bottom right. Maitland's ward plans were largely derived from Strype's, with the illustrations copied from West Tow's 1736 'Prospect Views of Ancient Churches'. Farringdon Ward was divided into Farringon Within and Farringdon Without in 1394 because "the governance thereof is too laborious and grievous for one person to occupy and duly govern the same". Cole, B.
Insurance Plan of City of London Vol. II: Key Plan
1 : 480 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1886 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
Insurance Plan of City of London Vol. I: Key Plan
1 : 480 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1886 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 CHURCHES, COMPREHEND.D PLATS, 10 Decem.r A.o Dom.i 1666
1 : 1836 This plan was reduced and engraved by Vertue in 1723 for the Society of Antiquaries. It is a derivative of Leake's 1667 map depicting London after the great fire of the previous year. The title of the map appears at the top, with scale bar at bottom right, a dedication to the Society of Antiquaries at middle left, and the key to lines and symbol in a banner at middle right. Below the title are illustrated prospects of buildings near Temple Gate in Fleet Street, Baynards Castle, St. Paul's Cathedral (from the south and west), Cheapside, Guildhall and the Royal Exchange. A plan of the City of London and Westminster is inset at upper right with a reference table. Vertue, George
London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.10 (includes: City Of Westminster; Finsbury; Holborn; Inner Temple; Lambeth St Mary; London; Southwark) - 25 Inch Map
1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
Insurance Plan of London Vol. 1: Key Plan
1 : 3600 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1904 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
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
WYLD'S PLAN OF THE CITY OF LONDON
This map of the City of London is based on Horwood's map of 1792-9. The map is enclosed in a border and features title inset in the top border, scale bar and imprint in the bottom border and table with reference to City wards at top right. Ward boundaries are highlighted in colour. Wyld, James
Report of the Improvements and Town Planning Committee to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled on the preliminary draft proposals for post-war reconstruction in the City of London.
Corporation of London
GENERAL PLAN OF THAT PART OF THE CITY OF LONDON THAT WAS DESTROYED BY THE GREAT FIRE OF 1666; SHOWING THE PRESENT STATE THEREOF
1 : 2431 This retrospective map compares pre-fire London with the city of the 1830s. The title and publisher's imprint appear at top left, with a reference table at bottom right, scale bar at bottom centre, and woodcut view of the Temple at top right. The map shows churches, halls and public buildings destroyed in the fire in grey,with contemporary buildings in pink. Wishaw, Francis
