Stranger's Guide Through The Streets Of London & Westminster 1814
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The Map
Full Title: |
The Strangers Guide Through the Streets of London and Westminster. &c. |
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Second Title: |
A New and Correct Plan of London and Westminster with the latest Improvements.
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Slipcase Title: |
Wards Plan of London. Printed & Sold by W & T. Darton, Holborn Hill.
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Publisher: |
Pubd. Jany 12th 1814 by Willm. Darton, 58 Holborn Hill, London.
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Date: |
1814 |
Size: |
35.5cm x 56cm (14" x 22") |
Scale: |
3¾" : 1 Statute Mile |
Extent: |
Somers Town - Ratcliffe - Walworth - Knightsbridge |
Description: |
First title in top border. Second title in oval at top right. Compass star and map scale at bottom right. Plan of the Rules of the Fleet Prison inset at top left. Map divided into squares lettered for reference and table of references below map. City area, open spaces, etc., are coloured.
Includes a "List of 200 principal streets with letters of reference to their situation" in the bottom margin.
Recorded in Howgego as No. 245 (4). |
This beautiful, high resolution map of Regency London is a great resource for students of London history. Genealogists and family historians will find this map of London a useful research aid.
This map of London includes a search engine, designed to search for results within the Darton map pages only. Use the "Search This Map" function at the top of each page to search for streets and place names in William Darton's 1814 map of London.
I hope that you find this feature useful.
Image Sizes and Download Times
The images of Darton's Strangers Guide Through Tthe Streets Of London And Westminster displayed here are scans of each dissected section of the plan, sliced vertically into 2 sections for high resolution display.
The average image size of the darton plan sections is approximately 226KB, although 2 images are displayed on each first view page, making an average size of 453KB.
Each section page includes 2 clickable enlargements (left half and right half of the image). Click on these for a high resolution enlargement of the map section being viewed. The enlarged image sections have an average size of 609KB, the smallest being 495KB and the largest being 747KB. At 56KB dial-up connection speed each enlargement page will take about 60 seconds to fully load, although some pages
(such as Bedford Square to Charing Cross) can take approximately 90 seconds to load.
Please be patient, as it is worth the wait.
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