Comments on: London Before the Houses https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2014/london-before-the-houses/ Highlighting the best London maps Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:14:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Housing https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2014/london-before-the-houses/#comment-422178 Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:14:04 +0000 http://mappinglondon.co.uk/?p=2787#comment-422178 […] live on streets that used to be natural meadow or forest. Pinned up in my shed I have a map titled London Before The Houses published in 1884. London’s ancient ways (Watling Street, Stane Street) appear, along with […]

]]> By: Housing https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2014/london-before-the-houses/#comment-422179 Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:14:04 +0000 http://mappinglondon.co.uk/?p=2787#comment-422179 […] live on streets that used to be natural meadow or forest. Pinned up in my shed I have a map titled London Before The Houses published in 1884. London’s ancient ways (Watling Street, Stane Street) appear, along with […]

]]> By: Six Things https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2014/london-before-the-houses/#comment-422177 Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:54:08 +0000 http://mappinglondon.co.uk/?p=2787#comment-422177 […] But imagine living in olden times when the maps were very different… I love this old map of London before the houses were all built. And you can go back even further, almost 700 years, to the incredible Gough map […]

]]> By: Renting in West Hampstead https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2014/london-before-the-houses/#comment-55969 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:44:10 +0000 http://mappinglondon.co.uk/?p=2787#comment-55969 You can compare this map to one of first ever maps of London – see here http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_files/ENG/LON/london1553_.htm – its dated 1553

]]> By: Rafael Pereira https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2014/london-before-the-houses/#comment-53348 Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:09:36 +0000 http://mappinglondon.co.uk/?p=2787#comment-53348 You guys may also like this video: A Shot-By-Shot Video Comparison of London in 1927 & 2013

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/01/london-in-1927-and-2013/

]]> By: Nicholas Duggan https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2014/london-before-the-houses/#comment-53223 Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:49:34 +0000 http://mappinglondon.co.uk/?p=2787#comment-53223 I am not a historian but looking at this map with the land profile down the sides of the page, reminds me more of a standard survey map. This is similar to the offshore survey maps which we currently produce with the topography central and then the profile underneath.
Maybe this is an early elevation map rather than a true depiction of the surface?

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