Maps of Islington
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
Insurance Plan of London North District Vol. D: sheet 4
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
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
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
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
London VII.44 - OS London Town Plan
1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
London VII.54 - OS London Town Plan
1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
Insurance Plan of London Vol. VI: sheet 125
1 : 480 This detailed 1887 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
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.
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
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
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
A "plan of the city of London after the great fire in the year of our Lord 1666; with the modell of the new city according to the design and proposal of Sir Christopher Wren, Knt., etc., for rebuilding thereof;"
A Plan for Rebuilding the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666; Designed by that Great Architect Sr Chrisr. Wren; & approved by King and Parliament, but unhappily defeated by Faction.
1 : 31680 This is an 18th-Century copy of Sir Christopher Wren's plan for rebuilding London after the great fire destroyed seven-eighths of the city. Wren, at this point an Oxford astronomer with comparatively little architectural experience, was among the first to present a plan to Charles II after the catastrophe. The narrow streets which had helped the fire's progress are replaced on his plan by monumental avenues radiating from piazzas. The influence of the classical buildings and formal street plans which Wren had studied in Paris are a clear influence. He also proposes the construction of a Thameside quay from Bridewell to the Tower, replacing the ramshackle wooden wharfside buildings with warehouses. A vignette of 'Thamesis' (the putative river god) with London burning in the background has been added in the lower margin. Wren's plan was never used. Perhaps due to his eargerness to produce a plan quickly, he was inaccurate in making his ground plan and did not consider contours adequately. Neither king nor parliament were to ever take it seriously despite the title's assertion that it was an approved plan. Wren, Christopher
A MAP or GROVNDPLOT OF THE CITTY OF LONDON, WITH THE SVBVRBES THEREOF
1 : 9386 Engraved map of London with title along the top, reference table with key to the city's landmarks and churches at top right and bottom left respectively and with compass star and scale bar at bottom right. The map shows the extent of the damage to the city caused by the great fire of 1666; the barren city wards contrasting with birds eye views of surviving buildings just outside the city. This small map was probably the basis for the many variations on the theme of the "London Verbrandt" which were published in Amsterdam by Venckel and De Wit in the aftermath of the fire. The fire broke out at a bakers shop on Pudding Lane near London Bridge on the 2nd of September 1666. The fire destroyed nearly the whole city 13.000 buildings circa and though the casualties were few only eight people died because of the fire thousands were made homeless. Hollar, Wenceslaus
An Exact Map representing the conditions of the late famous and flourishing City of London
1 : 6336 Engraved map of London and suburbs (including Lincoln Inn Fields, Finsbury Fields, Smith Fields and Bankside in Southwark) in which barren city wards contrast with birds eye views of surviving buildings outside the city, showing at a glancethe extent of the damage to the city caused by the great fire of 1666. The map features title along the top, with arms of the city and compass rose depicted at top left and right respectively. Also by Pricke is the inset map in the panel at the foot of the plate. Entitled "A map of the Whole City of London and Westminster with the Suburbs, Whearein May Be Judged What Proportion is Burnt and What Remains Standing", this smaller scale map (two inches to the mile) is flanked by reference tables with key to churches and halls of the London Livery companies. Pricke, Robert
the Cittie of London 32
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. Due to the scarcity of maps of London this rather misleading map was printed several times. This is the second edition. The map-seller's imprint has been removed and a large compass rose has been inserted. The Globe playhouse has been omitted on this edition, because of the theatre's destruction in 1644. Hoge Lane, Bedlam and Finsbury Fields have also been added. The map is shows the water conduit near Fleet Bridge, an important link in the water supply line from St Pancras. Ryther, Augustus
A New and Accurate SURVEY of the PARISHES of St. Andrews Holbourn
Plan of the parishes of St. Andrew's, Holborn, St George's, Queen Square, St James's Clerkenwell, St Luke's, Old Street, St Mary's Islington and the Charterhouse Liberty. Cole, B.
LONDINIUM Augusta
1 : 11019 The title of this engraved map of Roman London appears along the top, with compass rose at top right.The arms of the Count of Pembroke, to whom the map is dedicated, are depicted at bottom right. Published in 'Itinerarium Curiosum' by William Stukeley, an antiquarian with a scholarly interest in sacred history, the plan shows the Roman street plan and road network, with illustrated views of the city wall and other prominent architectural and geographical features. Stukeley, Dr. William
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
A new and exact plan of the city of London and suburbs thereof, 2
1 Blatt : 60 x 51 cm Henry Overton
Vrbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non suburbii Southwark accurata ichnographia, 1
1 Blatt : 52 x 64 cm Homännische Erben
A New and Exact Plan of the City of LONDON and Suburbs thereof, With the addition of the New Buildings, Churches &c. to this present Year 1720 (Not extant in any other)
1 : 6336 This map of the West End of London is part of Henry Overton's complete map of London and its suburbs, published in 1720.The title and publisher's imprint appear in cartouche in the centre, with fares of hackney coaches and an overall key at bottom left. The compass rose appears in the river, with parish boundaries outlined in colour. Henry Overton took over his father John's publishing business in 1707 and continued to publish maps from the same address at White Horse near Newgate. Overton, Henry
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
A new and exact plan of the city of London and suburbs thereof, 1
1 Blatt : 60 x 52 cm Henry Overton
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 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
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.
