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This sheet of Richard Horwood's multi-sheet map of London covers the area between White Lion Street in the North, Hatton Wall in the South, Goswell Road in the East and Gray's Inn Road in the West. Landmarks include the old Sessions House, Islington Spa, the Charter House, and Sadler's Wells. More sinister buildings include the Pentonville "House of Correction", "Orphans Working School", and workhouses. Amusing street names such as Cold Bath Square, Liquorpond Street and Portpool Lane perhaps give a clue to the debauchery of the young lawyers at the Inn. St John's Gate, home to the Museum of the Order of St John, is also marked. Horwood's map is described by Howgego as, "the largest and most important map of London from the eighteenth century." The survey took no less than nine years to complete, showing every house (with its street number, if it had one), alleyways, courts and even vacant plots. Among the subscribers to the map were the directors of the Phoenix Assurance Office to whose trustees and directors Horwood dedicated the map. At the massive scale of 26 inches to one mile, the insurers had a vested interest in the project - it would have repaid their investment in the map, affording detailed knowledge of London's potential fire risks and those in need of their insurance services!

region: London Maps & Plans

mapmaker: R.Horwood

place and date of publication: London 1799

medium and colour: copperplate, Uncoloured
size in cms: 53 x 58

ref: 37079

Price: £ 440

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