LONDON: A LIFE IN MAPS

A major exhibition at the British Library, 24 November 2006 – 4 March 2007

LIST OF EXHIBITS

Introductory area

William Morgan, London &c actually surveyed. London, 1682. Crace II. 58

Getmapping. London, 2000

The Walled City

William Stukeley, ‘Caesar’s Camp at Pancras called the Brill’ [1749]. Maps Crace XIV.48 & ‘Caesar’s Camp at Pancras in its primitive state 1 August 1750’. Maps Crace XIV.47

Gold medallion of 9 solidi struck in Trier in AD 310. From the Arras hoard (1922). Musée des Beaux Arts d'Arras, France

Gold mancus of Coenwulf of Mercia, Londonwic, c.805-10, Trustees of the British Museum;

Silver penny of King Egbert of Mercia, London, 828-9, Trustees of the British Museum;

Silver penny of King Alfred, London, c.890. Trustees of the British Museum

Seal of the City Corporation from about 1190, until 1967 used the same seal showing St Paul with drawn sword and the banner of England and on the other side, Thomas Becket. Seals lxviii.18 & 19 (photographs)

Matthew Paris, Itinerary from London to Jerusalem, c.1250. Royal MS 14.C.VII f.2

Poésies de Charles, Duc d'Orléans, c.1480. Royal MS 16.F.II, f.73

John Grove, A South-East view of the City of London Engrav’d from a very Antient Picture. 1754. Maps K. Top. 21.58

Anthonis van den Wyngaerde, Panorama of London and Westminster, c.1540. Facsimile. 1881-2. Maps 184.f.2(1)

William Smith, view of London, Westminster and Southwark from A Particular Description of England, 1588. Sloane MS 2596, f.52 Claes Jansz. Visscher, Londinum Florentissima Britanniae Urbs Toto Orbe Celeberrimum Emporiumque. Amsterdam, 1616. Maps C.5.a.6

Wenceslaus Hollar, Serenissimae Mariae invicitissimae Magnae Britanniae . . . hunc amoenissimum celeberrimi Londinensis emporia ac sedes regalis aspectum. Antwerp, 1647. Maps 162.h.4

John Norden (?), The View of the Cittye of London from the North towards the Sowth, London, c.1615. Private collection

Copperplate showing the area around St Paul’s Cathedral in about 1556-8, on the back of a painting of the Tower of Babel by a member of the circle of Martin van Valkenborch, c.1600. Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau, Germany

Letter of Nicholas Reynolds to Abraham Ortelius mentioning the Copperplate map, London, [1562-3]. Add. MS 63650.Q

'Londinum feracissimi Angliae regni metropolis' from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Cologne, 1623. Maps C.29.e.1

Photo detail from the first edition of 1572 showing the Cornhill area before the insertion of the Royal Exchange G.3603

Frans Hogenberg, Exterior of the Royal Exchange from Cornhill, c.1570. Maps K.Top.24.11- a - 2

Civitas Londinum, c.1633. Guildhall Library, City of London

Richard Newcourt (surveyor) & William Faithorne, Sr. (engraver), [An Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Svbvrbs Thereof, Together with the Burrough of Southwark and all the Throughfares, Highwaies, Streetes, Lanes &Common Allies within the same Composed by a Scale and Ichnographically described by Richard Newcourt. 1658 [late edition of about 1661].London, 1661. Maps Roll 17.a.3

Wenceslaus Hollar, Plan of the West Central District of London c.1660. Trustees of the British Museum.

Plan of Borough High Street, Southwark, c.1542. The National Archives, London, MPC64

Ralph Treswell, plan of houses along Fleet Lane (now 16 Fleet Lane, 16-21 Farringdon Street, Modern Court), 1612 Clothworkers’ Company Plan Book, 47. The Master and Wardens of The Clothworkers Company

Great seal, in use from 1663 to 1672, shows Charles II on horseback before a panorama of London copied from the Visscher print of 1616. Seal xxxix.2

John Evelyn's Diary. Add. MS 78323 Platte Grondt der Stadt London met nieuw model en hoe die afgebrandt is. Amsterdam,1667. Maps Crace. 1.49

Wenceslaus Hollar, An exact surveigh of the streets lanes and churches contained within The Ruines of the city of London, … . London, 1669. Crace 1.50

John Leake, ‘An exact surveigh of the streets, lanes, churches comprehended within the ruins of the city of London’, January - March 1667. Add. MS 5415.1.E

London Reborn

H. Hulsbergh (engraver), Plan of the city of London after the great fire in the year of our Lord 1666; with the model of the new city according to the design and proposal of Sir Christopher Wren. 1721 [Proof without title text] Maps K. Top. 20.19-3.

Nicholas Hawksmoor (?), ‘St Bridget’, c.1695. Maps K. Top. 23.10-e

Robert Hooke, final design for the Monument, 1675. Add. MS 5238.78

John Ogilby and William Morgan, A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London Distinct from Westminster and Southwark. London,1676. Maps Crace II.61

Office of Works draughtsman after Ralph Greatorex, ‘Plan of the Palace of Whitehall’, c.1670. Maps Crace XI.65

Leendert Knyff, A bird’s-eye view of Whitehall Palace from the east, 1695-7. Trustees of the British Museum

‘John Carters ground in Stepney containing eight akers, two roodes and seaven perche measured in June 1671’ accompanying Privy Seal warrant, 29 July 1671. Harley MS 7344 art. 72

‘Proposalls made and agreed between Richard Frith of St Martins in the Fields & the severall & respective Tradesmen hereunto subscribing’ [1688] with plan. Add. MS 16370.115, 116

Jan Kip, Veue et Perspective de la Ville de Londre (sic.) Westminster et Parc St Jacques. London, c.1728. Maps *3518 (9)

Ralph Treswell, Map of lands between Piccadilly and Oxford Street, 1585. The National Archives

‘The ground plot of Arundell house and gardens’, c.1678. Maps K. Top. 21.10- 4. Map of the Davies estate in the parishes of St Martin and St Margaret Westminster, c.1665. Add. MS 38104

‘Map of the Grosvenor estate in St George’s Parish as it was in the year 1723’, 19th-century copy. Maps Crace X.19

John Haynes, An Accurate Survey of the Botanic Gardens at Chelsea, 1751. Maps K. Top. 28.4-p

Richard Bennett, A New & Correct Plan of London, including all the New Buildings &c. London, c.1760. Engraved map on silk mounted on fan with ivory and bone telescopic sticks. Private collection.

John Rocque, Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Borough of Southwark. London 1747. Maps *3480 (293)

Thomas Taylor, A View of the Inside of the Royal- Exchange in Cornhill, London as it now is, 1712. Maps K. Top. 24.11-k

‘The Inside of the King’s Theatre Pantheon drawn from the stage 1791’. Maps K. Top. 25.20-1-b

Section of the Boxes at the King’s Theatre Pantheon with the Alphabetical List of Subscribers to the King’s Theatre Pantheon: with references to their different boxes. London, 1791. 118.b.38 (2) [photograph]

James Heath after Francis Wheatley, The Riot in Broad Street on the Seventh of June 1780. London, 1790. Maps K. Top. 22.9

‘Disposition of the Troops and Patroles in and about London and Westminster during the Riots in 1780’. Annotated copy of Carrington Bowles’s Reduced New Pocket Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster . . . 1780. Add. MS 15533, f.39

London's Villages

John Rocque, An Exact Survey of the Citys of London, Westminster and Borough of Southwark with the Country near 10 miles round. London, 1746. Maps K. Top. 6.87-5 TAB END

Philip Lea, A Mapp containing the Townes Villages Gentlemens Houses Roads Rivers Woods and other Remarks for 20 Miles Round London, c.1690. Maps Crace XIX.10

John Rocque, ‘A Survey of the House Gardens & Grounds at Putney Belonging to Edward Gibbon Esqr. 1744’. Add. MS 14411

Thomas Milne, Land Use Plan of London & Environs in 1800. Maps K. Top. 6.95 [Lt. Col W. Twiss], Neat drawing of East London and the Lea Valley etc at 3 inches to the mile sent for engraving, 1799. Maps OSD 131

Confirmation (c.988) of charter by Ethelred the Unready bestowing land in Hampstead on the newly-founded Westminster Abbey, 986. Stowe Charter 33

John Corris, 'A Plan of Putney Parish with parts of the parishes of Wimbledon and Mortlake within the Manor of Wimbledon', 1787. Add. MS 78153 D

Trade cards of Smith & Bye, c. 1805. Maps 188.v.25 & T. Starling, 1818. Maps 188.v.26.

John Rocque, Plan of the house, gardens, park and plantations of Wanstead in the county of Essex, 1735. Maps K. Top. 13.30 – a 11 TAB

Henry Holland, ‘Henry Holland’s House in Sloane Street’, 11 August 1790. Maps K. Top. 28.4-dd-3

George Robertson, A North View of the Cities of London and Westminster, with part of Highgate, taken from Hampstead Heath. London, 1780. Maps K. Top. 21.53

A Plan of the Academy at Norlands, near Kensington Gravel Pits, conducted by Thomas Marquois, c.1770. Maps K. Top. 30.11-1

Joseph Salway, Kensington High Street and Kensington Church Street from the Kensington Turnpike Trust Drawings, 1811. Add. MS 31325, ff. 27v-28

Charles Smith, Map of Country Twelve Miles round London, September 1822. Maps 3479 (124)

[Thomas Denton?], St John of Jerusalem manor, c.1810. Add. MS 31323 MM & YY

The East End

Thomas Porter, The Newest and Exactest Mapp of the most Famous Citties London and Westminster, with their Suburbs; and the manner of their Streets. London, [1654]. Maps Crace I.34

Joel Gascoyne, An Actuall Survey of the Parish of St Dunstan alias Stebunheath Being one of the Ten Parishes in the County of Middlesex... London, 1703. Maps K. Top. 23.11-h Photograph of the title panel of the map, showing St Dunstan pinching the Devil’s nose.

Order to Mr Frear to pay Henry Johnson £135 for work to be done on HMS Portland signed by members of the Navy Board, 5 March 1666/7 and later receipted. Add. MS 22183, f.8 Nicholas Hawksmoor, ‘1714 This plan correct’. Maps K. Top. 23.11-h

William Frazer, A Correct Ground Plan of the Dreadful Fire at Ratcliff ... on Wednesday July 23d 1794 ... Ratcliff, 1794. Maps *3495 (131)

Anonymous plan of Deptford, 1623 [date below scale bar]. Add. MS 78629 A.

Jean-Baptiste Chatelain (?), View of West Ham village, c.1750. Maps K. Top. 13.39-a

Peter Chassereau, An Actual Survey of the Parish of St Leonard, Shoreditch taken in the year1745. Maps Crace XVI.4

[William Vaughan], ‘The Merchant Plan of the London Docks 1799’ using Daniel Alexander, The London Docks, London, 1796, as a base map. Maps K. Top. 21.18-1

Daniel Alexander, Plan of the Proposed London docks. London, 1797. Annotated May 1799. Maps K. Top. 21.22-1

William Daniell, A View of the East India Docks. London, 1808. P838

Plan of a Road intended to be made from the West India Docks in the Isle of Dogs, to communicate with Aldgate High Street in the City of London; to be called the Commercial Road ... London, October 1801. Maps 3945 (24)

Age of Improvement

Richard Horwood, Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and parts adjoining, shewing every house. 1799. Maps C.24.f.7

[Thomas Milne?], Extract showing Somers Town from the neat draft of an unfinished [?] map of London, c.1800. Crace XIV.40

Thomas Marsh, A Plan of the New Intended Road from Paddington to Islington. [c.1755]. Maps K. Top. 22.14-b

Plan of roads south of River Thames, c.1745. Maps K. Top. 27.48-2

George Scharf, A View of the Northern Approach to London Bridge while in a state of progress.& A View of the Southern Approach to London Bridge while in a state of progress . . . June 1830. Maps 3250 (7)

Thames Tunnel c.1825. Maps 3710 (11)

C.A. Lane’s telescopic view of London and the Thames, from the Duke of York’s Column, Carlton Gardens. Hampstead, [1851]. 10350.a.2

Robert Adam, Elevation and plan of proposed arch at Hyde Park Corner, November 1778. Maps K. Top. 27.26-c-2 Ground plan for the Adelphi by the Adam brothers, 1773 (?). Maps K. Top. 22.7-a

Benedetto Pastorini, View of the South Front of the New Buildings called Adelphi formerly Durham Yard, c.1774. Maps K. Top. 22.7-b

George Richardson, A plan of an Estate called Marybone Park Farm, in the parishes of St. Maryle-bone and Saint Pancras. London, 1794. Maps Crace XIV.28 Photograph: SH Grimm, A view across Marylebone Park towards Hampstead … 1793. (A coach is travelling along what is now Marylebone Road.) Add. MS 15542, f.136

John Nash, 'Plan of an Estate belonging to the Crown called Marybone Park Farm upon A Design for letting it out on Building Leases'. From John White, Jr., Some Account of the proposed improvements of the Western Part of London By the formation of the Regent’s Park … 1815. Maps 10350 d.2

Design for laying out the Inner Circle of the Regents Park as a Garden for the Royal Botanic Society of London … 1840. Maps Crace XVII.66

Panoramic View round the Regents Park by Richard Morris author of essays on landscape gardening. London, 1831. Maps 14.a.29

Plan presented to the House of Commons of a street proposed from Charing Cross to Portland Place leading to the Crown Estate in St Mary-le-Bone Park, 1813. Maps K. Top. 22.4-2

James Basire Plan of the Proposed Improvements at Charing Cross, St Martin’s Lane and Entrance to the Strand, 1826. Maps Crace XVI17.38

Edward Wallis, A Cosmoramic View of London, 1843. Maps STL 189 / (Roll 382)

BR Davies & FA Bartlett, Topographical Survey of the Borough of St Marylebone. 1837. Maps Crace XIV.1

John Tallis, Tallis’s London Street Views. 1838-40. Maps C.7.a.34

Christopher and John Greenwood, Map of London from actual survey comprehending the various improvements to 1851. Maps Crace VII.265

The Illustrated Memorial of the Grand Industrial Exhibition of all nations Hyde Park London 1851. Maps Crace VII..267

The Mean Streets

Sketch Map of the London Postal District with its subdivisions. London,1856. Maps 3485 (12) Davies’s New Map of the British Metropolis and boundaries of the boroughs, county court districts railways, and modern improvements. London, 1854. Maps 3480 (142)

E. Stanford, Map of the County of London showing the boundary of the jurisdiction of the London County Council also the boundary of the sanitary districts, parishes, district boards of works, extra parochial places and the City of London. London, 1898. Maps 3485 (12)

Kings Mills Wharf, Warehouses, Granary and Sea-Biscuit Bakery from John Thomas Loveday, Loveday’s London Waterside Surveys for the use of fire insurance companies . . . London, 1857. Maps 4 b.1

Henry Vizetelly, The Grand Panorama of London from the Thames. London, 1844. Maps 42.a.30

Map showing the distribution of Cholera in London and its Environs from June 27th to July 21st 1866 . 1867. From the [9th] Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council for 1866. Maps 3485 (41)

Sheet, showing part of Westminster, from the ‘Master Map’ of London poverty. Museum of London

George E. Arkell, 'Jewish East London' in C. Russell and H.S. Lewis, The Jew in London: A Study of Racial Character and Present-Day Condition … London, 1900. 04034.ee.33

Charles Booth, Life and Labour in London. London, 1891. 08275.bb.5

George Biggs, The Railway Bell and the Illustrated London Advertiser Map of London. London , 1846. Maps Crace VII.251

J.A. Cumming, Proposed Plan for improving the approaches to the Metropolitan Meat Market, Smithfield and Railway Stations … 1860. Maps 3495 (61)

Plan of the Long Lands Estate: the Property of the St Pancras, Marylebone and Paddington Freehold Land Society 1851. Maps 3165 (2)

Macaulay’s Metropolitan Railway Map. [1867]. Maps 3480 (201)

John Martin, Thames and Metropolis Improvement Plan First Division. Improvement of the Drainage of the Metropolis, and preservation of the sewage for agricultural purposes … [1846]. Maps 24.e.27

Chelsea Embankment, opened by their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh on May 9th, 1874. [An account of the works, with a plan.]. C.193.b.5*

[Henry Hewitt Bridgman Architect], Suggestion for laying-out as memorial grounds St Pancras and St Giles Burial Grounds. [1876]. Maps 3495 (65) C.B. Bowman, Plan of the General Cemetery at Kensal Green in the Harrow Road. [1839?]. 695.l.14 (50).

James Pennethorne & Thomas Chawner, Plan for laying out the proposed eastern park to be called Victoria Park.. 1841. Maps Crace XIX.43a

Map of London. Work of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association November 1882 to December 1900. [1900]. Maps 3485 (135)

London Improvement Bill: Plan of the London County Council showing the new streets from Southampton Row to the Strand proposed to be made and property to be acquired … 1893. Maps 3495(71)

Letter of Reginald Brett to John Burns, 26 November 1895, with annotated Ordnance Survey plan of the Trafalgar Square-Mall area. Add. MS 46295 ff.247v-8, 249v

The Library Map of London. London, 1891. Maps 9.E.10

Metroland

LCC ‘Ground Plan’ for the Bunhill Fields area, with numbered boundaries added in red to a 5 foot to the mile [1:1056] Ordnance Survey map, 1910-15. City of London, London Metropolitan Archives

Map of Emmanuel Parish, Holloway. Holloway, 1894. Maps 3495 (72)

The Elms, Muswell Hill sale catalogue, August 1880. Maps 137.a.11, vol. 2

London’s most Healthy Residential Area served by the Great Central Railway Co., c.1910. Maps 3487 (34)

Ordnance Survey 6-inch map Middlesex sheet X. SW (1897) annotated for the Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society in about 1906. Maps C.44.b.68

A & J Soutar Architects, The estates of the Kings College . . . in the parish of Northwood and Ruislip . . . Town Planning Competition. [1911]. Maps 3465 (10)

The Greater London Plan. Master Plan 1944. From Patrick Abercrombie, Greater London Plan. London, 1945. Maps 199.f.2

Illustrated Map of London or the Stranger’s Guide to the Public Buildings, Theatres, Music Halls and all places of Interest. London, 1867. Maps 3480 (203)

Plan of Estates in the parishes of Kensington and St Margaret’s Westminster . . . Purchased by Her Majesty’s Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851. London, [c.1853]. Maps Crace X.15 Charles Goad Ltd, Plan sheet A 14 [South Kensington]. September 1901. Maps 145.b.23

Harrison’s Bicycle Road Map of Middlesex showing all the Railways & names of Stations Also the Villages, Turnpike Roads, Gentlemen's Seats &c improved from the Ordnance Surveys. London, 1883. Maps 9.a.22

Arthur C. Armstrong & Harry R.G. Inglis, Short Spins round London with 286 maps and plans [The Contour Road Books]. London & Edinburgh, 1906. 010349.de.7

Hopsons Handy Map of the Crouch End Cricket Fields. London, 1894. Maps 4050 (1)

The new map game: motor chase across London. London, 1925. Maps 162 p. 9

Reynold’s Pocket Distance Map of London. London, c.1859. Maps C.44.a.25

London County Council Tramways and through running connections. March, 1914. Maps 3485 (208)

Underground Electric Railways of London. [1907]. Maps 3485 (170)

Kennedy North, British Empire Exhibition 1924. Wembley Park April – October. London, 1923. Maps 3465 (16)

[Harry Beck], Railway Map. [London, 1935]. Maps 3485 (247)

John Norden , Guide for Cuntrey men by the helpe of wich plot they shall be able to know how farr it is to any street …. London, 1653. Maps Crace I.33

Tegg’s New Plan of London &c. with 360 references to the principal streets &c. London, 1830. Maps Crace VII.230

Collins’ Illustrated Atlas of London with 7000 references in 36 Plates of the Principal Routes between St Paul’s and the Suburbs …. London, 1854. Maps 15.b.18

Alexander Gross, Geographia New Atlas and Guide to London with Index containing over 8000 street names. London, 1913. Maps 15.a.11

[Phyllis Pearsall], Geographers’ A to Z clear and up-to-date Atlas to London and Suburbs with House Numbers. London, c.1946. Maps 197.b.40

The Daily Mail Map of Zeppelin and Aeroplane Bombs on London. From Daily Mail, 31 January 1919. Maps 3485 (263)

Schoolchildrens' recollections of Zeppelin raids. Add. MS 39257, ff.20v-21

Generalstab des Heeres, Abteilung für Kriegskarten und Vermessungswesen, Militärgeographische Angaben über England. Mappe 8 London Stadtplan von London Verkehrsplan von London und Umgebung. 30 August 1940. Maps 236.a.85

Special edition of the Frontnachrichtenblatt der Luftwaffe. Blue series. Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe, Führungsstab IC. Berlin, [1940]. Maps 46.c.24

London County Council War Damage map, sheet 78. City of London, London Metropolitan Archives

The Future City

Corporation of London, Report of the Improvements and Town Planning Committee . . . on the draft proposals for the Post-War Reconstruction in the City of London. London, 1944. Maps 59.e.17

London Borough of Lambeth, Brixton Town Centre Redevelopment Proposals. June 1969. Maps 36.d.10

Camden Council , Camden Town Neighbourhood Guide. June 1986. Maps Y. 1590

Resource Information Service, Emergency Hostels Map Book. [1996]. Maps 2125.f.5

Daily Telegraph Map of the Olympic Games Venues. London, 1948. Map Library

All in One Map Guide Festival London. 1951. 010349.n.71

Tom Salter, Carnaby Street.. Walton-on-Thames, 1970. X.809.8375

London Borough of Lambeth, Clapham Townscape Study. 1969. Maps 36.d.10

The Wall Street Journal Europe: Financial Map of the City . 1995. Maps X. 5784

Geoprojects, Docklands and Greenwich . Henley-on-Thames, 1989. Maps X. 884

Mayor of London, London Plan. London View Management Framework Draft Supplementary Planning Guidance. April 2005. Maps 232.b.98

Data sources: 2001 Census, Output Area Boundaries and Census Area Statistics. National Statistics. UK Office of National Statistics. ©Crown Copyright. Reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and Ordnance Survey

Data sources on panel, including Ordnance Survey and Environment Agency. ©Crown Copyright. Reproduced from the OS map by the Environment Agency with the permission of the Controller of HMSO, Crown Copyright Data sources on panel; including Ordnance Survey, Atkins, Transport for London Road Network. ©Crown Copyright. Reproduced with kind permission of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

Plan showing the proposed extent of the London Underground and overground railway systems by 2012. Private Collection

King’s Cross 1988. King’s Cross Master Plan [Bird’s-eye view of King’s Cross from the South]. London, 1988. Map Library