Four Very Detailed LONDON MAPS 1863: All of London and Outlying Villages Such As Hampstead, Stratford, Merton and Beckenham, Slipcased

The massive expansion of the Victorian age produced a demand for detailed maps to determine ownership of land and to plan development. Edward Stanford, a leading Victorian cartographer, produced these maps to show the railways, factories, docks and roads that were springing up everywhere. So detailed are these maps that even individual gardens of suburban homes are shown, as are separate platforms of the new railway termini and, astonishingly, even the individual statues in the city. Anyone seeking information about their forebears will be able to find the streets, alleyways and outlying villages where they lived; where they went to school; the churches and chapels where they were married and attended Sunday services; the factories, riverside wharves and farms where they worked; the miserable workhouses where they ended their days and the burial gounds where they were laid to rest. The early railways are marked, as are the houses of famous people such as the Hampstead home of Sir Rowland Hill, the social reformer who invented the postal service.