Maps of Islington
London VII.6 - OS London Town Plan
1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.3 (includes: Hackney; Islington; Shoreditch; Stoke Newington) - 25 Inch Map
1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
London (Edition of 1894-96) XL (includes: Hackney; Islington; Shoreditch; Stoke Newington) - 25 Inch Map
1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
London (First Editions c1850s) XVIII (includes: Hackney; Islington; Shoreditch; Stoke Newington) - 25 Inch Map
1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
Insurance Plan of London North District Vol. E: Key Plan
1 : 4800 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1893 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
Plan of ISLINGTON CATTLE MARKET BUILDING GROUND & RESIDENCES
This is a plan of the Cattle Market in Islington to be sold in lots at auction. An elevation of the Market House appears in the bottom left corner. Madley
ISLINGTON
1 : 12672 Map of the borough of Islington with inset plan of the parish of St Mary's on the left of the plate and note giving information about the borough down the right side of the plate. The plan shows the New River, a man made water course supplying London with fresh water from Hertfordshire. Baker, E.
London VII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map
1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
Poverty map of London, 1891
Charles Booth
Militärgeographische Angaben über England.
Generalstab des Heeres, Abteilung für Kriegskarten u. Vermessungswesen IV. Mil.-Geo
A Plan of te Parish of ST MARY ISLINGTON, with the boundaries of the Several Ecclesiastical Districts, Sueveyed by R. Creighton for the Parochial History, BY S. LEWIS, JUNR.
1 : 15840 Plan of the parish of St Mary's Islington, with the nine ecclesiastical districts that make up the parish delineated by pastel colours. Dower, John, Pentonville.
Insurance Plan of London North & North-East District Vol. E: Key Plan
1 : 21120 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1899 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
Charles Booth's 'Descriptive Map of London Poverty'. Detail showing the City of London and the East End
The East End of London is the hell of poverty. Like one enormous black, motionless giant kraken, the poverty of London lies there in lurking silence and encircles with its mighty tentacles the life and wealth of the City. So wrote J H Mackay in 1891. It was acknowledged that the blame lay with overcrowded housing and with a surplus of labour, which kept wages low for those lucky enough to find work. Statistics for 1888 showed that the East End had 8,465 official paupers - people 'living rough'. According to Charles Booth's survey in 1889, over a third of its inhabitants lived on or below the margin of poverty. His 17-volume survey included this coloured-coded map indicating London's poverty and prosperity street by street. The key to the colours used is as follows: Gold: Upper-middle and Upper classes.Wealthy. Red: Well-to-do. Middle-class. Pink: Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earning. Purple: Mixed. Some comfortable, others poor. Pale Blue: Poor. 18s. to 21s. a week for moderate family Dark blue: Very poor, casual. Chronic want. Black: Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal. Booth, Charles
PLAN OF ISLINGTON PARISH
1 : 9744 This detailed plan of the parish of Islington records each property and field boundary and even indicates the layout of the gardens and trees. A vignette in the lower right corner shows a view of Canonbury from 1821. The note at lower left reports the increase in building over the last seven years and the population growth. Dent, R.
PLAN of the Parish of St. Mary. Islington
This is a plan of the parish of St Mary's, Islington, with three vignettes depicting the Scotch Church, the New Church and St Peter's Chapel down the right of the plate. Baker, B.
Insurance Plan of London North North West District Vol. D: Key Plan
1 : 10560 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1892 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
A Survey of the Roads and Foot-paths in the Parish of ISLINGTON. From a plan in the Vestry Room, Drawn in the Year 1735
1 : 14400 This is a plan of footpaths and roads in the parish of Islington. It extends from Battle Bridge to Highgate and from ''Cruch End'' to Kings Land and the boundary to Shoreditch. An interesting feature on this map is Jack Straws House near Highbury. Jack Straw was a leader of one band of rebels who attacked the Treasurer's House at Highbury on June 14, 1381. The Peasants' Revolt over increasing taxation was largely due to the monarchy's prosectution of war against France. Toll gates are also marked in various places. Hawsworth, J.
An exact survey of the city's of London Westminster , V
1 Blatt : 53 x 71 cm John Rocque
A PLAN of the CITIES of LONDON WESTMINSTER & the BOROUGH of SOUTHWARK Reduc'd to the Same Scale as those of PARIS ROME & DUBLIN
This map comprises two sheets with the title along the top in English and French, and a note comparing built-up areas of the four European capitals. City boundaries are outlined in colour. This is Robert Sayer's 1773 edition of the map first issued by Rocque in 1761. Rocque, John
Plan showing the sewers in Tower Hamlets, 1843
From 1807, the East End was supplied with water pumped from the River Lea at Bow by the East London Waterworks Company. This was not, however, the continuous flow of water we take for granted today. Dr John Simon wrote, in 1849, of the thousands who "wholly depend on their power of attending at some fixed hour of the day, pail in hand, beside the nearest standcock; where, with their neighbours, they wait their turn; sometimes not without a struggle, during the tedious dribbling of a single small pipe. Household rubbish was piled into heaps in the street and outdoor toilets drained into cesspits. The survey of sanitation in Bethnal Green made by Hector Gavin in 1848 paints a sorry picture. Knightly Court was typical of the streets he visited: "In it there are two privies in a beastly state, full, and the contents overflowing into the court. There is one dust reservoir. One stand-tap supplies the seven houses; two cases of severe typhus lately occurred here, one died." This map of 1843 shows the distribution of sewers through the East End. They carried only surface water, contaminated with decayed rubbish from the streets and excrement from overflowing cesspits, and discharged it directly into the Thames - from which water companies pumped their drinking water. James Beek
Map shewing the situation of all premises licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the County of London
London County Council
BOWLES'S NEW PLAN OF LONDON, WESTMINSTER AND SOUTHWARK, WITH THEIR ENVIRONS TO THE EXTENT OF THREE MILES ROUND ST. PAUL'S
The Bowles family were prolific publishers and their output spans more than a century. This map is relatively unusual as it is presented in a circle. The map is divided by lines into square miles. In the margins of the sheet are reference tables and adverts for coming publications. Baker Street, laid out from 1755 on, is shown by a pecked line, as is Gloucester Street. Carington Bowles
TQ38 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map
1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
Central London : Recto
1 : 15840 G.W. Bacon & Co G.W. Bacon & Co.
Central London : Verso
1 : 15840 G.W. Bacon & Co G.W. Bacon & Co.
PLAN of LONDON
Only the main roads appear on this map, giving the appearance of a rather spacious capital city. The new London Bridge is shown without its approaches. Pecked lines show the intended location of the Thames Tunnel. Marc Brunel, father of the great engineer Isobard, solved the problem of how to bore through soft ground or under water, inventing the tunnelling shield. Both father and son worked on the tunnel which was completed as a foot tunnel in 1843, before becoming a railway tunnel for the East London Railway in the 1860s. The East and West India Docks are also shown. Phillips, Horatio
Map of London, shewing the BOUNDARIES of the GENERAL and Two Penny Post
This outline map of London was commissioned by the House of Commons for the21st Report of the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry in 1830. The map's title features at top right, with the boundaries of the nine postal districts and those of the General-, Two- and Three-Penny Post deliveries outlined in colour. Boundaries are explained at top left with a key to colour usage in panel below the plan. Basire, James
Cary's new plan of London and its vicinity
Cary, John; Cary, George Cary
CRUCHLEY'S NEW POSTAL DISTRICT MAP OF LONDON
This map shows the division of London into ten post codes. The title appears along the top, with the publisher's imprint below the plan and a scale bar at bottom left. Also on the map are the Metropolitan Railway line to Finsbury, the proposed site of Charing Cross station (built in 1864) and the planned London, Chatham and Dover line. Cruchley, George Frederick
