Cuffie has listed some of my “go to” maps.
I thought it seemed odd that the website has “rounded up” years such as 1800, 1830, 1860, when the actual dates of the maps as per cuffie’s list aren’t usually “full” numbers - rather 1862, 1863, 1868 ..... etc.
The maps you mention all look familiar to me so without checking, I am sure that cuffie’s suggestions will be correct.
I’d never heard of “the underground map” so thanks for drawing it to my attention.
Is there anything specific you are looking for in the Shoreditch/Bethnal Green area?
Many thanks to Cuffie81, Girl Guide, Guy Etchells and yourself for your suggestions. I'll cetainly add some of those to my list.
Yes those dates are clearly rounded, but the actual maps I'm referring to are better than anything else I've found around those dates. For example, on the "1800" map if you zoom into an area around New Inn Yard and Holywell Lane, Shoreditch and you will see a level of detail that I've not seen elsewhere. The "1830" isn't quite so detailed as the "1800", but is still better than the 1820, 1827, 1834 and 1837 maps on mapco.
What am I looking for? Well, my latest project is to plot all of the places where my ancestors lived, particularly in Shoreditch, Spitalfields and Bethnal Green and to build a story around them. One family member, a poor weaver of Huguenot descent called George Robert Shoulder, moved (at least) 14 times between 1819 and 1892 as his family grew and then shrank again. At the moment I am using different maps including the 1746 Rocque (which is fully downloadable if anyone is interested), Charles Booth's 1898 Poverty Maps (also downloadable), those from Mapco and the NLS (the 1893-6 five-feet-to-the-mile OS map is amazing), but would really like to get my hands on those two too.