{"id":1833060,"date":"2024-07-19T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1833060"},"modified":"2024-07-19T10:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:49:02","slug":"historical-maps-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/07\/historical-maps-of-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Maps of London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tudor London: The City and Southwark in 1520<\/em>. Historic Towns Trust.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Londonist<\/em> does a good job introducing us to two maps of old London<\/a> published by the Historic Towns Trust<\/a> a few years ago\u2014a map of medieval London<\/a> (1270-1300) published in 2019, and a map of Tudor London<\/a> (1520) published in 2018 (and updated in 2022). The Historic Towns Trust publishes many maps of British towns and cities\u2014historical<\/em> maps, not reproductions of old maps (in fact, Londonist<\/em> points out that no maps of London prior to about 1550 currently exist). The Trust\u2019s London maps are also available as overlays on the Layers of London online map: Tudor<\/a>, medieval<\/a>. Some maps from the Trust\u2019s British Historic Towns Atlas<\/a><\/em>, which began publishing in 1969 and the earliest volumes of which are out of print, are also available as PDF downloads; here\u2019s the page for London<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Londonist does a good job introducing us to two maps of old London published by the Historic Towns Trust a few years ago\u2014a map of medieval London (1270-1300) published in 2019, and a map of… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[277,92,54,1685,166,71],"class_list":["post-1833060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-history","tag-1200s","tag-1500s","tag-cities","tag-htt","tag-london","tag-uk","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786966,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/the-london-medieval-murder-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833060,"position":0},"title":"The London Medieval Murder Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 January 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"A project of Cambridge's Violence Research Centre, the London Medieval Murder Map is an interactive map that plots 142 murders from the first half of the 14th century onto one of two maps of London: a 1572 map from Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum or a map of London\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Crime"","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/crime\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"London Medieval Murder Map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/london-medieval-murder-map-1024x734.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/london-medieval-murder-map-1024x734.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/london-medieval-murder-map-1024x734.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/london-medieval-murder-map-1024x734.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3052,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/10\/new-map-books-for-october-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833060,"position":1},"title":"New Map Books for October 2016","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"13 October 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"October is a busy month: I'm aware of six new map books coming out. 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