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All The Houses Of London

Large as well as Accurate Map of the City of London

John Ogilby as well as William Morgan's 1677 map of London is believed to move the kickoff map to present every edifice inwards London inwards conception (rather than through an oblique bird's meat pictorial view). The map was created inwards the decade after the Great Fire of London inwards 1666. The map was originally intended to aid inwards the planning out of province inwards the City after the Fire.

The screenshot of the map inwards a higher identify shows the conception of the novel St. Paul's Cathedral. The quondam cathedral had been destroyed inwards the Great Fire of London. Work on the novel cathedral had begun inwards the 1670's (when this map was surveyed) only was non completed until 1711. Ogilby & Morgan's map thence presumably uses Sir Christopher Wren's plans to present where the completed cathedral would shortly stand.

The British Library Georeferencer has an interactive version of the map. On the Georeferencer the Ogilby & Morgan map has been overlaid on transcend of Google Maps. British History Online too has an interactive Leaflet version of the map.

Horwood's Plan

Horwood's Plan (produced betwixt 1792 as well as 1799) was the side past times side map to endeavor to present every edifice inwards London. Horwood had originally planned to include every identify issue on the map, only this was never completed. The finished map did present every edifice only the numbering of the buildings was never completed.

Romantic London has created an interactive version of Horwood's Plan. Romantic London's interactive map of Horwoord's Plan includes William Faden's afterward 1819 revised edition of Horwood's map. You tin larn to a greater extent than close Horwood's Plan on Romantic London's Introducing Horwood's Plan.

Charles Booth's Maps Descriptive of London Poverty

In the terminal 2 decades of the 19th century the English linguistic communication philanthropist Charles Booth systematically plotted the levels of poverty as well as wealth inwards every street inwards London. He published the results of his query inwards 'Life as well as Labour of the People inwards London'.

The publication included detailed 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty' inwards which the levels of poverty as well as wealth inwards London were mapped out street past times street. 450 notebooks were too completed during the study, inwards which his researchers wrote detailed descriptions of London's streets as well as their inhabitants.

On Booth's maps private buildings inwards each street are colored to dot the occupants' social class. You tin explore Booth's maps as well as notebooks of 19th Century London on the LSE's Charles Booth's London website. The maps as well as notebooks furnish an amazing resources into the grapheme as well as people inwards each London edifice inwards the 19th Century.