If, like me, you’re always combing around for new bits of information about medieval London, you’ll find this site very interesting and helpful. And delightfully detailed. It knows its onions…well, its old city…and I thoroughly recommend you take a look. And keep it earmarked for future reference.
Dear Viscountess, I have seen this website in my trawling online, it is quirky and has some good bits, and like you I need a decent map of London, (preferably after 1450 but before the disruptions of the Dissolution – on cartography for just one area). Who knew I might as well be chasing unicorns!
I can find maps for “Chaucer’s London” and that of Richard II, of scads from after the Dissolution (ie. the Tudors, especially Elizabethan/Shakespearean, not to mention the London that arises after the Fire) but … I suspect the map I am piecing together on my own is just going to have to suffice. Thanks for the head’s up on your web find, I’ll go back and give it another look, and good luck with your map hunting too!
Hello amma19542019. I can thoroughly recommend a map that’s published in collaboration with the London Topographical Society and is of London in 1520. It’s big, and I’m sure you’ll be able to add bits and pieces of your own information. I wrote about it at https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/wander-the-streets-of-london-in-1520/ You’ll find links there. I’ve used mine so much I had to buy a second one because I strained all the creases! (My arms aren’t like a gorilla’s, and the map is very large to unfold and fold!) So I have one rather sorry overused version, and one in pristine condition.
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