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John Rocque's Map of London, Westminster, and Southwark, 1746, John Rocque FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps Creator John Rocque. Support as nominator – MER-C 11:08, 19 November 2023 (UTC) Support I do love a massively large map - Howard 🌽33 11:24, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
Southwark is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Sudweca. The name means "southern defensive work" and is formed from the Old English sÅ«þ (south) and weorc (work). The southern location is in reference to the City of London to the north, Southwark being at the southern end of London Bridge.
John Rocque's 24-sheet map. In 1746, the French-born British surveyor and cartographer John Rocque produced two maps of London and the surrounding area. The better known of these has the full name A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark: it is a map of Georgian London to a scale of 26 inches to a mile (i.e. 1:2437), surveyed by John Rocque, engraved by John ...
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The London Borough of Southwark (/ ˈ s ÊŒ ð É™ k / ⓘ SUDH-É™rk) [2] [3] in South London forms part of Inner London and is connected by bridges across the River Thames to the City of London and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It was created in 1965 when three smaller council areas were amalgamated under the London Government Act 1963.
The intersection at McCowan Road and McNicoll Avenue within Toronto. McCowan Road is a major north-south thoroughfare in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. It runs through the city of Toronto and into the Regional Municipality of York where it ends at the Town of Georgina.
In 2016, the Toronto Financial District Business Improvement Area (FDBIA) and City of Toronto began study of updating Path signage and maps to make navigation easier. [16] In 2018, Steer Davies Gleave completed design of a new wayfinding system that is still used today. [17] This system was rolled out in some buildings in 2018.
The Upper Norwood Recreation Ground was a location in Patrick Keiller's 1983 film, Norwood, and in Chris Shepherd's 2010 film Bad Night for the Blues. [ citation needed ] The Croydon transmitting station , a TV transmitter tower, stands on the hill at Upper Norwood and a second larger TV transmitter, the Crystal Palace transmitting station ...