A Plan of the Street, Roads, &c. between Black Fryers Bridge, London Bridge, Westminster Bridge, Lambeth, Newington Butts, & St. Margarets Hill, as they now are> together with the New Intended Streets, Roads, & Communications in Strong Black Lines, as proposed in the Year 1768, but the dotted Lines shew these now Intended in ye Year 1769.

Author: LONDON
Title: A Plan of the Street, Roads, &c. between Black Fryers Bridge, London Bridge, Westminster Bridge, Lambeth, Newington Butts, & St. Margarets Hill, as they now are> together with the New Intended Streets, Roads, & Communications in Strong Black Lines, as proposed in the Year 1768, but the dotted Lines shew these now Intended in ye Year 1769.
Description: [1769] Engraved map, 255 x 365 mm. main roads coloured by hand, old tears and repair to verso. The construction of these new roads over and close to St George's Fields were a new nexus leading to London an Blackfriar's Bridges. The scene of the Gordon Riots of 1780, the centre of this map is now known as The Elephant and Castle, taking its name after a coaching inn of the same name. That inn is not marked on the present map, although a number of others do appear including the Dog and Duck, Lambeth Road, the current site of one of the buildings of the Imperial War Museum.

Keywords: Maps

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