Banstead Downs
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The overlays that highlight 17th century London features are approximate and derived from:
- Built-up London – Hollar's 1666 map before the Fire
- City of London wall and Great Fire damage – Hollar's 1666 map after the Fire
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Banstead Downs is in the middle of this segment of the 1786 map. http://www.motco.com/MAP/81001/SeriesSearchPlat...
Pedro Link to this
Banstead Downs.
During his period outside London during the Great Fire Robert Hooke took advantage of the Epsom landscape, and the deep abandoned wells, to do many experiments on gravity, levity, pressure, respiration, smoke and many other phenomena.
(Info from The Curious Life of Robert Hooke by Lisa Jardine)