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  2. Woodcut map of London - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. John Rocque's maps of London - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Copperplate map of London - Wikipedia

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    The "Copperplate" map of London is an early large-scale printed map of the City of London and its immediate environs, surveyed between 1553 and 1559, which survives only in part. It is the earliest true map of London (as opposed to panoramic views , such as those of Anton van den Wyngaerde ).

  5. London by Night: Adventure in a Victorian City - Wikipedia

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    For To Challenge Tomorrow gamemasters looking for campaign or adventure ideas set in Victorian England, London by Night provides a detailed background of 19th-century London, including history, geographical landmarks, social stratas, possible careers and occupations, the cost of living, political factions and popular movements of the time, and the various levels of government. [1]

  6. Visscher panorama - Wikipedia

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    A similar engraving of London by Wenceslas Hollar in 1647 depicts a similar view, on six plates, Long View of London from Bankside, based on drawings done by Hollar in London in the early 1640s, from the tower of St Mary Overie. Hollar's panorama has a single viewpoint, and shows the River Thames curving sinuously from left to right past the ...

  7. 19th-century London - Wikipedia

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    The Victoria Embankment was the most ambitious: it concealed a massive interceptor sewage tunnel, which channelled waste from a network of smaller tunnels away from the River Thames and out of Central London, towards the Northern Outfall Sewer at Beckton in East London. The Victoria Embankment also allowed an extension of the Metropolitan ...

  8. John Norden - Wikipedia

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    John Norden's map of London in 1593, engraved by Pieter van den Keere. There is only one bridge across the Thames, but parts of Southwark on the south bank of the river have been developed. John Norden's map of Westminster, 1593 Large version of the London map. John Norden (c. 1547 – 1625) was an English cartographer, chorographer and antiquary.

  9. Silver Street, London - Wikipedia

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    Silver Street was a street in London It ran from the north end of Noble Street at Falcon Square to Wood Street. [1] It originated in medieval times, and is one of the streets shown on a map known as the "Woodcut map of London" or the "Agas" map, which survives in a 17th-century version.

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