Old Map of London, 1746 by John Rocque - D2 - St Pauls Cathedral, Blackfriars, Southbank, Bankside,. Fleet Street, Temple, Upper Ground Finish:Framed canvas map which was just a little

which was just a little city back then

based on surveys of London between 1547 and 1559 - Elizabethan London

it's a rather beautiful map

The Area That Would Become Pimlico (Neat House Gardens) and more

Old Map of London, 1746 by John Rocque - D2 - St Pauls Cathedral, Blackfriars, Southbank, Bankside,. Fleet Street, Temple, Upper Ground Finish:Framed canvas map which was just a littleThis is the greatest old map of London ever created. Put together by surveyor and cartographer John Rocque and engraver John Pine in 1746, this map has an incredible level of detail. The cities of London and Westminster are already quite developed, but south of the river in Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham it's still mostly fields. This map was originally published in 24 sheets. The map shown here is sheet 12, focusing on the stretch of Thames between