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Historic maps of Camden

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Historic maps of Camden

The collection includes reproductions of early London maps, together with:

  • other street plans of London
  • Ordnance Survey maps
  • parish maps
  • bomb damage maps
  • Goad insurance plans
  • street and district maps
  • sale catalogue plans
  • architectural drawings

London and Holborn

Holborn is shown on many early views and maps of London. The Centre holds copies of most of these. They include:

•    London
Van de Wynegaerde, View of London, 1550.
•    London 
R. Agas, 1560. Scale 28 inches: 1 mile.
•    London
W. Morgan, London etc actually surveyed...,1682.

•  St Andrew Holborn Parish  

From J. Strype, Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, c. 1720, 1755.
•    St Giles in the Fields Parish
From J. Strype, Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, c. 1720, 1755.
•    London
J. Rocque, Plan of the Cities of London, Westminster and Southwark, 1746. Scale 26 inches: 1 mile.
•    London 
J. Horwood, Plan of London and Westminster, 1792-1799. Scale 26 inches: 1 mile.
•    London
C. & J. Greenwood, 1828. Scale 8 inches: 1 mile.
•    St Giles in the Fields Parish and St George Bloomsbury Parishes
C.J.J. Mair, 1866. Scale approx. 1 inch: 200ft.
•    Some of the above maps also cover parts of St Pancras parish.

Hampstead

•    Belsize Manor
1679.
•    Hampstead Parish Trigeometric Survey
1680.
•    Hampstead Manor
J. Ellis, 1762. Scale approx. 1: 2,000. With accompanying field book. 
[Copy of originals held at London Metropolitan Archives]
•    Hampstead Parish
J. Newton, 1814. Scale approx. 1: 9,000.
•    Hampstead Parish Tithe map
1839. Scale approx. 1: 2,000. 
[Copy of original held at the National Archives

St Pancras

•    Cantelowes Demesne Lands Parliamentary Survey
1649. 
[Copy of original]
•    St Pancras Parish
1801 (J. Tompson), 1804 (J. Tompson) with terrier book, 1834 (Davies), 1849, 1850, 1860, 1868, 1874, 1880, 1893.

Ordnance Survey maps

•    Pre World War II maps
•    6 inches: 1 mile (1: 10,560. Replaced by 1: 10,000 series)
1862-1873, 1893-1895, 1911-1914, 1938. Whole borough (gaps).
•    12 inches: 1 mile (1: 5,280)
1848-1851. Camden Town, Euston and Holborn. Skeleton survey.
•    25 inches: 1 mile (approx. 1: 2,500)
1865-1874, 1891-1894, 1910s-1920s (Land Registry series), 1930s (London County Council revision). Whole borough (gaps).
•    60 inches: 1 mile (1: 1,056)
1848-1851. Hampstead Heath and Highgate. Skeleton Survey.
1865-1874, 1891-1894, 1910s-1920s (Land Registry series), 1930s (London County Council revision). Whole borough (gaps). 
•    Post World War II maps
•    1: 10,000 (approx. 6 inches: 1 mile. Older sheets in this series at scale 1: 10,560)
1951 to date. Whole borough (gaps).
•    1: 2,500 (approx. 25 inches: 1 mile)
1946 to date. Whole borough (gaps).
•    1: 1,250 (approx. 50 inches: 1 mile)
1946 to date. Whole borough (gaps).

Administrative maps (1: 25,000 and 1: 63,360)

1947 to date. Camden and Greater London areas.

Goad Insurance plans

•    Scale 1 inch: 40 feet
Dates vary from 1886-1960. Available on microfilm. Indexed for streets in Camden.

Bomb damage maps

•    Facsimile copies of maps covering Camden area. Produced by London County Council Architect's Department using 25 inches: 1 mile Ordnance Survey maps colour coded to show damage by enemy action.
•    [Copy of originals held at London Metropolitan Archives]