UK Maps - London maps especially

Sadly many wonderful map sites have disappeared. If any links do not work please let me know

Modern 

http://maps.google.com/  this is amazing - do explore - 
example To find a London suburb "Bethnal Green, London" or a street Poyser St, Bethnal Green
2009 has street view

Microsoft http://maps.live.com/has Birds Eye view - sort of looking down whereas Street View is right up close


Streetmap - Maps and directions for the whole of Great Britain


Good access to many maps http://www.streetfinder.co.uk


Illustrative map of London parishes | British History Online

East End's Free Art & History.|


Place Names

LDS Parish etc maps see England Jurisdictions 1851 -
http://maps.familysearch.org
Has a map and click county and eventually it will Load a list of parishes and registration districts

http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/ - search - but does not seem to handle bad spelling

and another good one

Francis Frith: Old Photos, Maps, Books and Gifts

Maps and Information 1801-2001
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp


Historic


Old Maps Online (added 2019)
https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

Wonderful collection

Images of early maps on the web:

 

Baedeker's Old Guide Books - do explore

 

Mostly USA - David Rumsey collection
http://www.davidrumsey.com/

Old Maps - UK


National Library of Scotland - Map Images
A good resource and maps can be compared

6 inch maps 1850-90 

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

these are fantastic I could zoom into the farms our folks had in Oxfordshire in 18th century.

Lots of Information

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp


Mainly selling maps - which you may want
http://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk

 

 

Old Maps - London 

London 1900 Pocket Atlas   

can find with other goodies on

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nmfa/genealogy.html

Lockie's Topography of London,

giving a concise local description of and accurate direction to every square, street, lane, court, dock, wharf, inn, public-office, &c.
in the metropolis and its environs, including the new buildings to the present time ... : Lockie, John : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Romantic London

A research project by Matthew Sangster exploring life and culture in London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
using Richard Horwood's PLAN of the Cities of LONDON and WESTMINSTER the Borough of SOUTHWARK, and PARTS adjoining Shewing every HOUSE (1792-99)

Information and Maps http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/LND/#Maps


1862 at http://www.mappalondon.com/

The excellent David Hale's
 

MAPCO : Map And Plan Collection Online

includes a lot of wonderfully scanned maps of London - just click on the map area to enlarge.

And not just London images  - David has many maps - well worth a visit.

1895 or 1854

http://www.victorianlondon.org/frame-maps.htm

Map 1859:

http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/map1859.html
Map 1889

http://www.umich.edu/~risotto/maxzooms/sw/swe910.html
Map 1899

http://booth.lse.ac.uk

http://oldlondonmaps.com/index.html

Charles Booth archive  http://booth.lse.ac.uk/

London Ancestor

http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/maps.htm

Lost Streets   - London

London Street disappear over the years especially after WW2 and some have their name changed.


I frequently use Kelly's Trade Directories to find old London streets

so see my page on 

Directories.

Then use the old maps to find the street and compare to modern maps.

1831 Topographical Dictionary of London


 ... - Google Book -

very detailed list of streets and places them in relation to their area. 

Road Name changes

This was mentioned in 2015

A-Z New to Old Street names

 

INNER LONDON STREET NAME CHANGES

London Street name changes

and their

London Miscellany

 - some good lists may help also site has lots of maps etc for sale.

 

Many people know the site Lost streets which is itself lost
BUT the archive is at

http://web.archive.org/web/20041129033726/http://members.aol.com/WHall95037/london.html

NOTE - Research-UK's name is on the site - I understand they have ceased business

Verify name at Victorian London A-Z Street Index

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/index.html#HOME 


London Street atlases and directories for sale on CD

http://www.archivecdbooks.com

And they did have a CD on Street name changes

http://www.archivecdbooks.org/

 

London House numbers

Beware you may have found your ancestors house number on Google street view but it may not be their house.

London streets have often been re-numbered - here is in an example

A case study Shakespeare Road SE24 Herne Hill in Brixton

 

The 1799 Harwood also has numbers for each house -

of course numbers have changed since then but if you find your folks in a directory the map will place them in a street. http://www.motco.com/map/81005/ 

some interesting points on Britain and London in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering

Numbering along one side and then back down the other was changed to odds one side and even the other

I think I've seen some re-numbering in early 1800s.
Also Kelly's directories have a section with houses in a street (not all just those of businesses etc) the numbers in 1856 show streets
with little blocks of houses maybe called a terrace or some such but the numbers are just for that block.
By 1861 census many of these streets some very major have obviously been re-numbered and now have a long series of numbers rather than little blocks. Note:
The USA system of very large house numbers is not normal in UK.

House numbers changed again in 1900s and especially after WW2 streets disappear or are re-numbered

Some old houses have number on the fanlight above the door - some of these are the old numbers so may show a change in the street


This may help

http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/

And the local council archives should know what happened in their area

 

Getting a picture of 363 Brixton Rd

 - shows how I knew the house in Street view was one I wanted except for the bus in front

 

 

A study of house numbers and which house is it now

1880s Shakespeare Rd and Percy Terrace Brixton

 

- home to Thomas Lankshear and Henry Carpenter


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