London through time

A London of many sheets.

Browse every acquired plan and sheet in this collection. Search a date, mapmaker or place. The timeline keeps your place and zoom across geographically placed editions. Every scan is available below; unplaced and perspective views open separately.

Find a place in the paper.

Pins are manually identified on these historical scans. Geographic survey alignment is a separate check.

Read the map.

Drag to move around. Scroll, pinch or use + and − to zoom. Arrow keys move the map when it has focus. Scroll down over the bottom timeline for an older edition, or drag its cursor. The frame icon returns to the full sheet.

What the colours mean

Booth’s colours classify streets by the research team’s assessment of social conditions. The original legend uses historical terms and judgements; it should be read as evidence of its period.

About this review

A working full-screen app study using real LSE and Wellcome scans, brown bookbinding leather and the site’s aged paper. The source inventory records which sheets have been acquired and which are still candidates.