Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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REF map of London;
It is birds eye view of London 1590?
by Wenceslaus Hollar
it can be downloaded to ones photo x prgm ;its a .jpg;
http://www.adh.brighton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/01/LIAHollar01.html
London Map, 1746
Although a little after Pepys’ period, this map of London from the 1740s is full of interesting details:
http://www.motco.com/Map/81002/imageone-a.asp?Picno=81002000
And its alphabetical street index:
http://www.motco.com/Map/81002/seriesa-left-frame_border.asp
map of huntington in detail
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?X=520000&Y=270000&width=700&height=400&client=public&gride=557989&gridn=222731&srec=0&coordsys=gb&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=CM226PE&scale=200000&advanced=&multimap.x=399&multimap.y=173
fascinating site; one get down to smallest area; you can zoom in on the SP house in Bramton
London Map, 1676
This interactive map is based on Morgan and Ogilby’s map of 1676:
http://instruct.uwo.ca/english/234e/site/mainlndnmap.html
Not all of the links are active yet, but it is still an interesting and useful map.
An 18th century map of central London which includes some features (eg, The King’s Wardrobe, Baynard’s Castle) that are missing from other maps found online: http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/baynards-thumb.htm
Maps of London
A beautiful map of London 1642 (Sam’s time):
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_files/ENG/LON/nk_city-lond_1642.html
Dito, after 1666:
http://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/lonfire.htm
The 1642 map that dirk has provided above is very interesting because of those fortifications which take in The City, Westminster and Southwark. Presumably they were ordered by Parliament at the start of the Civil War. Does anyone have any more details on them?
1642 fortifications
“During the short period when England was a republic under Oliver Cromwell London was continuously under threat from the pro-Royalists so Cromwell built a new defensive city wall which conveniently defines the limits of London at that time.
Starting on the Thames well to the west of Westminster Abbey at present day Vauxhall Bridge the wall went north east to Hyde Park Corner. Then turning north west to present day New Oxford street and further North and east along present day Pentonville and City roads. Then in a southerly circular route along Great Eastern Street, Commercial street and south to the Thames at Wapping. The south side of the river had a city wall for the first time starting in the east, south of Wapping close to the southern entrance to present day Rotherhithe Tunnel along to an east west wall running from the Old Kent Road (Old Dover Road) to the Elephant and Castle to the Imperial War Museum then South West to Vauxhall Bridge. In all eleven miles.
This wall was never attacked and was demolished in 1647 such that today almost nothing remains.”
The above quoted from
http://www.historyofengland.net/london/london7.html
Thank you dirk! It seems amazing that what must have been a huge undertaking was only to last for 5 years.
Maps for the real estate agent {hindsite} 1300 and up [with Dirks ]save them to your own hd. Growth??
http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/medart/image/England/london/Maps-of-London/se075lon-s.jpg
London population figures, to go with the maps…
“London boomed from a population of about 50,000 in 1500 to perhaps 140,000 in 1600, and to about 750,000 by 1700.” from:
http://www.johnwarwicker.com/Londonhist.html
“The population of London had increased from 80,000 in 1500 to 250,000 in 1600 and 375,000 in 1650.” from:
http://www.historyofengland.net/london/london7.html
Comparing the two above (and there are more estimates available on the web, which situate somewhere between these two extremes) it seems that this is mere guesswork and nobody really knows. But at least it gives us an idea: somewhere around 300,000 (375,000 is maybe too high) in about 1650.
Two maps of London - 1665
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17221/17221-h/17221-h.htm
This HTML copy of the “History of the Plague in London”, by Daniel Defoe, contains two nice maps (the City of London & “Greater” London) valid for the year 1665. (Scroll three screens down.)
If you use Google Earth, then get this overlay map of London in 1690: http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2006/01/london-google-earth-1690.html A little later than the diary, but worth it for being able to compare with modern London.
Great find. One item, I find of Interest, is that the stairs appear to be more like piers going way out into the river. Am I being deceived?
check out new maps available at
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/lmap.asp?compid=22081&slice=51&buffer=3
great detail availe down to lot available.
London ca 1560 — before Sam’s time, but most features would still have been relevant in the 1660s (before 1666 that is). Beautiful high resolution old map by Braun & Hogenberg, 1572.
http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/british_isles/london/maps/braun_hogenberg_I_A_b.jpg
Panorama of the “1640s”
Interesting rather than informative
“Panorama of 1616”
A more precise (more accurate?) panorama from a similar vantage point as the 1640 version above. The model for it?
Several maps here of London, covering many years, including Sam’s time.
http://collectbritain.co.uk/collections/crace
Multiple maps of London over time - 9 16c, 10 17c, incl. pjk’s second.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Egenmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/ENG_pages/lon.htm
Here is a methode to get Pepys London map [1658-1661] on to your wall to see his scurrying back and forth.
print.http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/
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