For all you Londoners out there
- Thread starter ianrauk
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And here's another good one, for everyone: http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html
that's fabulous....
the Ordnance Survey (grudgingly) made some old maps available for free - for a while. You had to pretend to be a student. They've stopped doing this, but you can still find local old OS maps of London in bookshops for about four quid. Otherwise it's a variety of commercial offerings from which OS take a cut. http://leisure.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/historical-maps
the Ordnance Survey (grudgingly) made some old maps available for free - for a while. You had to pretend to be a student. They've stopped doing this, but you can still find local old OS maps of London in bookshops for about four quid. Otherwise it's a variety of commercial offerings from which OS take a cut. http://leisure.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/historical-maps
Over The Hill
Guru
- Location
- Ridden off into the sunset
Some great links - thanks guys!
More excuses to not do my tax returns!
Good programme on the box recently about maps - had map of london on it.
I want to get one and hand tint it.
More excuses to not do my tax returns!
Good programme on the box recently about maps - had map of london on it.
I want to get one and hand tint it.
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
'The Tamise' ou 'Riviere de Londres'! Lovely site Ian, ta. More squishing of time coming up...
New Popular Edition Maps has complete coverage of GB 1 inch maps from mainly the mid 40s to mid 50s, so pre motorway and pre many rail closures (which were going on at a reasonable pace before Beeching).
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
brilliant. addd to favourites under . sites to look at to avoid working
brokenbetty
Über Member
- Location
- London
There is an amazing old map of Tottenham from 1619 on Wikipedia (south at the top):
I live in this area and recognise a lot of farm names in the modern streets
I live in this area and recognise a lot of farm names in the modern streets
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
had a proper look at where i live now. and wow isall i can say to the 1868 maps. makes me realise where some of the streetnames here come from!
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I'm a sucker for time wasting in front of maps. For the London-centric, the Stanford 1862 map at http://www.mappalondon.com/ is excellent. And there's also the Charles Booth poverty maps here: http://booth.lse.ac.uk/ which is even better if you manage to find Booth's survey notes to go with the map (the site's search engine works but it took me a fair while to get the hang of how it works...)
And here's how I've been wasting my time... http://crossfields.blogspot.com/search/label/Charles Booth
And here's how I've been wasting my time... http://crossfields.blogspot.com/search/label/Charles Booth
Globalti
Legendary Member
I love maps too, I'm a genuine Londoner born in SW, but didn't return there until early adulthood. I became fascinated by what does on under London so I enjoy studying maps looking for traces of lost rivers like the Fleet and the Westbourne. No time now but I'm sure these links will give me a new seam to mine.
