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Victorian London in detail with OpenLayers

by msmithstubbs on 1/27/16, 6:12 AM with 20 comments

• by darkr on 1/27/16, 10:51 AM

  I thought my house was built some time between 1890 and 1900, but as I can see it on this map, I guess that puts it nearer to 1890.

  I'd like to think of some Victorian gentleman sitting in this very same room, smoking a pipe, reading in the paper by gaslight about the newly built power station at Deptford, and about Idaho becoming the 43rd American state.

• by easytiger on 1/27/16, 8:16 AM

  It even shows Horse Troughs, which are still there

  http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=51.5230&lon=-0.1...

• by andyjohnson0 on 1/27/16, 9:30 AM

  Some building seem to have their internal walls mapped. For example:

  http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=20&lat=51.5226&lon=-0.1...

  Or am I reading this wrongly?

• by stevep98 on 1/27/16, 7:23 AM

  http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=21&lat=51.5343&lon=-0.0...

• by th0ma5 on 1/27/16, 7:40 AM

  This looks a lot like the maps that came with the old Sherlock Holmes Infocom game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock:_The_Riddle_of_the_Cr... ... which makes sense I guess.

• by aardvark179 on 1/27/16, 11:04 AM

  Forget London, try browsing round other areas of the UK and looking at some of the historic OS 25 inch maps.

• by stereo on 1/27/16, 9:37 AM

  Is there a page that explains all these abbreviations and symbols? P.H.? H? F.P.? That little arrow against the walls? http://maps.nls.uk/townplans/symbols.html only has a couple.