Maps

Selection of early maps of London held in the Map Collection

Date Author Title Scale Facsimile Original in Library

[1570]

Ralph Agas

Civitas Londinum

Not drawn to scale

1.Adams & Francis, 1874;
and 2.LTS, 1905

No

1572

J. Hoefnagel

Londinum feracissimi Angliae regni metropolis

No scale

GLC, [19--?]

No

1593

John Norden

Norden's maps of London and Westminster

1:20,000

LTS, 1899

No

1600

John Norden

Civitas Londini

Not drawn to scale.

LTS, 1961

No

1658

R. Newcourt

An exact delineation of the cities of London and Westminster

1:5,150

LTS, 1905

No

[1660]

T. Porter

The newest and exactest map of the most famous cities London and Westminster

1:15,000

LTS, 1898

 

No

1662

Jonas Moore

A prospect and map of London, showing the River Thames to Woolwich reach

1:30,000

LTS, 1912

 

No

1667

John Leake

An exact svrveigh of the streets, lanes, and chvrches contained within the rvines of the city of London

1:3,700

LTS, 1908

 

No

1677

J. Ogilby & W. Morgan

A large and accurate map of the city of London

1:1,200

Margary,

1976

No

[1690]

Jacob de la Feuille

Londini Angliae regni metropolis novissima & accuratissima

1:15,000

Greater London Council, 1969?

No

[1720]

Matthaeus Seutter

Londinum celeberrima metropolis

1:15,000

Margary, 1976

 

No

1746

John Rocque

A plan of the cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark

1:2,437

Margary, 1971

Yes

1766

John Rocque

A plan of London on the same scale as that of Paris

1:50,000

Margary, 19--?

No

1795

Bedford Estates

Part of the map of London, comprizing the estates of his Grace the Duke of Bedford

1:2,500

LTS, 1933

No

1799

Richard Horwood

Plan of the cities of London and Westminster

1:2,500

LTS, 1966

Yes

1807

Richard Horwood

A plan of the cities of London & Westminster

1:2,437

Photocopy

Yes

1822

T. Starling

Plan of the parish of St. Mary, Kensington, including old and new Brompton

1:4,700

LTS, 1934

No

1827

C. & J. Greenwood

Map of London from an actual survey

1:9,050

Margary, 198-?

No

1835

J. Cross

Cross's new plan of London, 1835

1:13,750

Guildhall Library Publ, 1998

No

1836

F.P. Thompson

Map of Chelsea

1:3,200

LTS, 1969

No

1843

B.R. Davies

London 1843

1:19,495

Old House Books, 1992

No

1851

J. Reynolds

Reynolds's map of London with the latest improvements

1:15,840

-

Yes

1851

J. Rapkin

Tallis's illustrated plan of London and its environs

1:26,677

Oxford Carto-graphers, 199-?

No

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