Mapping The Neat Burn Of London

350 years agone on September sec 1666 the Great Fire of London began inward a bakery on Pudding Lane. By September fifth the mail away had destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches together with St Paul's Cathedral. The BBC has created an interactive map together with the diary entries of Samuel Pepys to recount the 4 days when London burned.

Retrace Samuel Pepys' Steps inward the Great Fire of London shows the extent of the mail away inward red. The orangish lines present the estimate extent of the mail away on each day. The grayed out surface area shows the estimate border of London inward the 17th Century. The map sidebar contains Pepys' diary entries nigh the fire, inward chronological order. If you lot click on the headline for each entry you lot tin thought Pepys' place for that entry on the map.

The BBC map likewise includes a release of other markers highlighting of import buildings which survived the mail away together with a release of images of London inward the 17th Century. The map tiles together with labels accept been styled to laissez passer on the map a suitably vintage feel. However, if I had made this map, I would accept used an master 17th Century map or at to the lowest degree given the user the selection to thought an historical map every minute a map overlay or layer.