London 1863 (Box set)

£29.99

The boxset contains four sheets (North West; North East; South West; South East) of London with the surrounding countryside and outlying villages such as Hampstead, Stratford, Merton and Beckenham.

The massive expansion of the Victorian age produced a demand for detailed maps to determine ownership of land and to plan development. Edward Stanford, the founder of our legendary mapshop, was at the forefront of Victorian cartography, producing these maps to show all of London, in its finite detail.

At a scale of 6 inches to 1 mile these maps are so detailed that they show individual buildings, the gardens of suburban houses, separate platforms of the new railway stations and even individual statues in London’s squares. Anyone seeking information about their forebears will be able to find the streets, alleyways and villages where they lived; where they went to school; the churches and chapels where they were married and attended Sunday services; the factories, riverside and wharves and farms where they worked; the miserable workhouses where some ended their days and the burial grounds where they were laid to rest.

Each sheet is produced facsimile from the original hand coloured maps.