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Middlesex Maps

For maps showing only the City of London and not other parts of Middlesex, see the London page.

Peter Christian has written a brief guide to London Maps Online, which gives an assessment of the major online maps and their utility for genealogists.

• John Speed's Map of Middlesex, 1611, and another version from a proof copy
• John Speed's Map of Westminster, 1611
• Greenwood's Map of London 1827
• The Collage Portal (Corporation of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery image database) has historic maps of London. On "Advanced search" choose picture type as "map", enter place name of interest as search term. The website has thumbnail and part-screen images of the maps, and a facility to order a detailed image.
• Leigh's New Map of the Environs of London (1819)
• The London Topographical Society has a series of publications of early maps of London
• Great Britain Historical GIS Project at the University of Portsmouth (formerly at Queen Mary & Westfield College, London) has the Vision of Britain site which is very useful for historical maps of the boundaries of administrative areas in London, for example Registration Districts. They also have a London GIS with a number of statistical maps of London, including:
  • Domestic Service in London, 1861 and 1911
  • Infant Mortality in London, 1881
  • Deaths from cholera in london, summer 1866
  • Typhus fever and uncorrected and corrected deaths

Maps recommended by John Henley for use with his lists of churches and parishes

A reminder that some good sites for London Streets past and present are:

• Godfrey maps Paper reprints of old Ordnance Survey maps
• Lost and renamed streets are given in GENDOCS Victorian London street index.
• Streets today Streetmap and Multimap
• Map 1827 Greenwood's map of London 1827 provided by Bath Spa University College
• Map 1859: Map of John Snow's London in 1859 provided by UCLA School of Public Health
• Map 1862 Stanford's Map of London and suburbs 1862 provided on-line by Motco who also sell reproductions with more detail
• Map 1877 Stanford's Map Of London Showing The Boundaries Of Parishes, Ecclesiastical Districts, And Poor Law Divisions 1877 provided by MAPCO Map and Plan Collection Online.
• Map 1889 Booth's map of Poverty 1889 provided by University of Michigan
• Map 1899 Booth map of poverty 1898-9 provided by the London School of Economics, with much other detailed information including surveys.
• Some City parishes - these London Ancestor maps are at http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/maps.htm but seem to be only intermittently available at present.

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