A History Of The Streets Of London

There are no roads inwards the City of London.

There are even in addition to so  a lot of streets, alleys in addition to lanes. The feel of the give-and-take 'road' to betoken a byway did non emerge until the tardily 16th Century - a long fourth dimension afterward most of the roads inwards the City of London were established in addition to were already named.

This isn't the alone interesting fact almost the street names of roads inwards London. Streets of London is a map of the City of London which allows you lot to discovery the etymological history of London route names. Click on a highlighted route on the map in addition to you lot tin give notice detect out why the selected route is called what it is in addition to where its mention originally came from.

The map itself was real slow to make. I essentially started past times only adding polylines to a Leaflet map. However it speedily became apparent that in that place were a release of themes emerging inwards the names of London's streets, peculiarly relating to London's medieval markets, the Inns of Court in addition to the history of banking inwards the City.

I hence decided to purpose Leaflet's Layer Groups in addition to Layers Control to supply an slow agency for map users to filter the roads shown on the map past times dissimilar categories. You tin give notice exercise this past times using the map card inwards the altitude right-hand corner of the map.

I equally good wanted to supply a fiddling historical background for to a greater extent than or less of these categories. I've added pop-up windows for a few of the route categories. However these alone look on the map when you lot plough on i of the relevant categories from the map card (all categories are initially selected in addition to so these pop-ups volition alone look afterward you lot plough off a category in addition to plough it on again).