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George Washington Bacon (1830–1922) [1] was an American mapmaker and publisher who developed a successful business producing maps of London. In 1861, Bacon founded a series of businesses. He became bankrupt in 1867, after failing to keep on top of managing these businesses. [2] In 1870, Bacon started his business, G.W. Bacon & Co., on 127 ...
George Washington Bacon; C. Copperplate map of London; G. Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas; J. John Rocque's maps of London; T. Tube map; W. Wonderground Map; Woodcut ...
John Rocque's Map of London, Westminster, and Southwark, 1746, by John Rocque. ... 1923 map of Europe at Interwar period, by George Washington Bacon (restored by Alex:D)
Later definitions have tended to be more narrow and Bacon's Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs (revised edition c. 1912) includes Berkshire, Buckingham, Essex, Hertford, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey in the "maps of the home counties". [5]
John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, Westminster, Southwark and the eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. [1] As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities.
Fullarton was also responsible for Rev. J. M. Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, its companion volume Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales and Bartholomew's Imperial Map. [ 4 ] Another major work was A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge , edited by George Godfrey Cunningham , who was a partner at Fullarton ...
Greater London is divided into five sub-regions for the purposes of the London Plan. The boundaries of these areas were amended in 2008 and 2011 and their role in the implementation of the London Plan has varied with each iteration.
The "Woodcut" map of London, formally titled Civitas Londinum, and often referred to as the "Agas" map of London, is one of the earliest true maps (as opposed to panoramic views, such as those of Anton van den Wyngaerde) of the City of London and its environs. The original map probably dated from the early 1560s, but it survives only in later ...