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
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
Then use the old maps
to find the street and compare to modern maps.
1831 Topographical Dictionary of London
very detailed list of
streets and places them in relation to their area.
Road Name changes
This was mentioned in 2015
INNER
LONDON STREET NAME CHANGES
London Street name changes
and their
- 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
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