Old Map of London 1746 by John Rocque - F1 - Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Brick Lane, Whitechapel, East London, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, E1 dorset work leaving or housewarming gift

work leaving or housewarming gift for someone from Sussex or who has Sussex in their heart

or they may help you with framing

a park that no longer exists

a preeminent mapmaker of the time and His Majesty's official geographer

Norwich was a pretty big town almost 450 years ago

Old Map of London 1746 by John Rocque - F1 - Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Brick Lane, Whitechapel, East London, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, E1 dorset work leaving or housewarming giftThis is the greatest old map of London ever created. Put together by surveyor and cartographer John Rocque and engraver John Pine in 1746, this map has an incredible level of detail. The cities of London and Westminster are already quite developed, but south of the river in Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham it's still mostly fields. This map was originally published in 24 sheets. The map shown here is sheet 7, focusing on the space between Shoreditch