Four Very Detailed Maps, London 1863: All of London with the Surrounding Countryside and Outlying Villages such as Hampstead, Stratford, Merton and Beckenham

Edward Stanford

Published by Old House Books, Devon

About this Item

Condition: Maps: Fine Condition. Box: Very Good. A set of four beautiful folded maps in an illustrated card box, depicting London and its Suburbs. 6 inches to 1 mile showing: Railways, factories, docks, pubs, schools, roads, farms, workhouses, churches and even the individual statues in London's squares. Published by Old House Books - maps and books that explore and explain the past.

The maps are in fine condition; the box is a little bruised and slightly crushed to centre - as the maps do not completely fill the void of the box. These maps, showing London and its environs in 1863, and are so detailed that they show individual buildings, the gardens of suburban houses, platforms at the new railway stations and individual statues in London's squares. In four sheets produced from facsimiles from the original hand-coloured maps.

The massive expansion of the Victorian age produced a demand for detailed maps to determine ownership of land and to plan development. Edward Stanford, a leading Victorian cartographer, produced these maps to show the railways, factories, docks and roads that were springing up everywhere. So detailed are these maps that even individual gardens of suburban homes are shown, as are separate platforms of the new railway termini and, astonishingly, even the individual statues in the city. Anyone seeking information about their forebears will be able to find the streets, alleyways and outlying villages where they lived; where they went to school; the churches and chapels where they were married and attended Sunday services; the factories, riverside wharves and farms where they worked; the miserable workhouses where they ended their days and the burial grounds where they were laid to rest. The early railways are marked, as are the houses of famous people such as the Hampstead home of Sir Rowland Hill, the social reformer who invented the postal service.

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Seller Inventory # C1169

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Four Very Detailed Maps, London 1863: All of London with the Surrounding Countryside and Outlying Villages such as Hampstead, Stratford, Merton and Beckenham
• Publisher: Old House Books, Devon
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
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