Link: London Maps & Social History

[Berlin-Bob]

The Charles Booth  Poverty Survey of London at http://booth.lse.ac.uk/ also includes maps of London 1898/2000. Compare then and now !

If you search the poverty maps you can find what sort of street your ancestors lived in during the late Victorian period. It is absolutely fascinating.

This link: http://nils.lib.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Perseus:collection:Bol takes you to the
Tuft's Digital Library.  Click on "collections", then "History and Topography of London"

Click on "texts" to get to a fantastic collection of texts about historic london

For Instance: Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: Volume 1
(http://nils.lib.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2000.01.0026)

Click on "London Atlas" for maps, new and old !


1852 London - http://www.victorianlondon.org/1852map/1852map.htm

1862 London Map with (Partial) Street Index - http://www.motco.com/Map/81006/

London Maps through the 1800s - http://www.victorianlondon.org/frame-maps.htm

Map of City of London Churches - http://www.cityoflondonchurches.com/mappage.htm

Index of various maps of London - http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/maps.htm

Various historical maps & plans for London & environs http://www.rootschat.com/links/01zq/


Contemporary Street Maps and Street Finders:

www.multimap.co.uk

www.streetmap.co.uk

Modern London boroughs which relate roughly to older ones (although some renamed) can be located here (click each borough for a description of districts/parishes:

http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/London_borough

[mickgall]

Hi all
just found an excellent site for maps of old London . Its part of the Charles Booth survey into London poverty 1896-1903 and its helped me find addresss that no longer exist. It shows a map from the 1880's and its modern counterpart from 2000. If the place no longer exists it shows an approximate location on the 2000 map.
In the search bar enter the address (if this produces no results enter the area). This will bring up results for the survey notebook page for the address/area. Then click on link for- view approx location and you'll have the two maps displayed. As an added bonus if you click on- display image of this page ,you can read the social conditions of the area at the time of Booths visit (best viewed as a JPEG).
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?sub=search_catalogue_pages
Best of all its FREE 
Mick

[Paul E]

Hi

The Booth site is really useful - thanks!

Another good 1900 London map is at

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nmfa/Maps/pocket_atlas_and_guide_to_london/paagtl1900index.html

I recpmmend you save each page to view it, as then you can use your imaging software to zoom in.  I would heartily recommend using Picasa2 - available as a free download from the Google homepage (extras)... I have been able to look at the streets of London in superb detail using this method.  An example is attached.

best wishes

Paul

[Dimps]

Use these maps in conjunction with the notes taken during Booth's survey (available to download from the same site) - and you get a real insight into what life was like within an individual street.

[mc8]

I have found this resource really useful in helping me locate the addresses of my Camberwell ancestors and get an idea of the conditions they lived in. There is a searchable index, maps linked to modern streetmaps and a record of walks throughout the whole of London which give a lot of social history detail and assessment of income levels

http://booth.lse.ac.uk/

sorry-realised this has already been posted  ::)but there doesn't seem to be an option to delete the post

[Hackstaple]

I have put a link to old London maps on my Home page. From there you can see many old parish and ward maps of London dating from about 1750 to 1850. Just click on www.southernprints.co.uk and scroll down the page to the links - then click on Londonancestor 

[Indaloman]

There is an excellent site at
http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/greenwood/

The road names are very clear, and specific places and history are also included

[Emsworthy]

Thank you!! That's very useful....took me a while to work out the controls, but I got the hang of it eventually!

Regards, Emma

[Indaloman]

Yes at first it is not user friendly but the first page gives navigation advice. I just jumped in but got the hang of it in a few moments Unfortunately for me it doesn't go far enough East