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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 ...
List of bridges in London lists the major bridges within Greater London or within the influence of London. Most of these are river crossings, and the best-known are those across the River Thames . Several bridges on other rivers have given their names to areas of London, particularly where the whole river has become subterranean.
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 ).
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 ...
The Bogoda bridge is over 400 years old and made entirely from wooden planks, which are said to have come from one tree. [citation needed] It is an exclusive construction as it has an 2.4 metres (7.9 ft) tall tiled roof structure for its entire span of nearly 15 metres (49 ft) length with a 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) breadth.
(Both bridges) The new bridge: carries the B3357 road. The old bridge: carries traffic to and from the car park for the Two Bridges Hotel. Tyne Bridge: Tyne and Wear: Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead: 1928: Crosses the River Tyne: Valley Bridge: North Yorkshire: Scarborough: 1865: spans Ramsdale Victoria Avenue Bridge: Cambridgeshire ...
Until Putney Bridge opened in 1729, London Bridge was the only road crossing of the Thames downstream of Kingston upon Thames. London Bridge has been depicted in its several forms, in art, literature, and songs, including the nursery rhyme " London Bridge Is Falling Down ", and the epic poem The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot .
In the 18th century London began to grow rapidly. Until 1750 there was only one road crossing over the River Thames, namely London Bridge.But the capital started to sprawl, first along the river from the City to Westminster, and then north past Soho (in medieval times, the king's hunting grounds) to Oxford Street and beyond.