MAPCO : News

~ Map Of London 1857 Preview Page ~

A preview page of London 1857: Drawn & Engraved Expressly For The Post Office Directory has just been displayed. Details are:

Title: London 1857. Drawn & Engraved Expressly For The Post Office Directory.

Cover Title: Post Office Directory Map Of London With Patent Index.

Index Title: A New Map Of London, Copied By Permission, From The "Post Office London Directory", With Patent Index, Enabling Any Place To Be Found On The Map With Mathematical Certainty.
Price: Two Shillings Plain ; Three Shillings Coloured. Showing The New Postal Districts.

Publisher: London: Kelly & Co., Post Office Directory Printing Offices, 18 to 21 Old Boswell Court, Clements Inn, Strand. (W.C.)

This hand coloured map is highly detailed, and the preview page includes a huge enlargeded view.

Enjoy this preview!

~ Map Of Australia 1836 ~

A General Map Of Australia 1836 will soon be on display.

This map was published by Joseph Cross of 18 Holborn Hill. This is the oldest Cross map in the MAPCO collection.

Look out for this high quality map soon!

~ Map Of London 1804 ~

Wallis's Plan Of The Cities Of London And Westminster 1804 is now on display.

A later version of Wallis's 1801 map, this edition is extended east by an extra sheet 11¾" (30.0cm) wide, from Stepney to Greenwich Marsh. An additional title "The Isle Of Dogs and the New Docks for the West India Trade" is displayed in an oval at the top left.

~ MAPCO Revised ~

** Map Of London 1850 **

Cross's New Plan Of London 1850 now has its own domain name:

london1850.com

However, the map is still part of the MAPCO collection and the MAPCO : Map And Plan Collection Online website.

Enjoy this fascinating map!

Look out for more MAPCO Revised maps in coming months.

~ MAPCO Revised ~

** Smith's New Map Of London c1828 **

Smith's New Map Of London c1828 has been updated as part of the MAPCO Revised project.

The enlarged map images make navigation and viewing much simpler than the original display format from 2006.

I hope that you find the updated map useful.

Look out for more MAPCO Revised maps in coming months!

~ Map Of Sydney 1802 ~

A map entitled Plan von Sydney der Hauptstadt der Englischen Colonien in Australien. Aufgenommen von Hrn. Lesueur; und berichtigt von Hrn Boullanger i. J. 1802 (Map of Sydney, the capital of the British colonies in Australia. Recorded by Mr. Lesueur, and corrected by Mr Boullanger AD 1802) is now on display.

This rare, early map of Sydney records details of roads, buildings, windmills, gardens, orchards, gallows, brickfields, and the cemetery. Topographic relief is represented by hachures (shading lines). A Key to important buildings and places is located below the map. All text is in German.

I hope that you find this map of interest. Enjoy!

~ Cross's London Guide 1844 ~

Cross's London Guide 1844 has been displayed. This is the fourth of 5 Cross maps in the MAPCO collection to be displayed.

This map was scanned way back in 2007, but has only now made it onto the site.

Cross's London Guide 1844 nicely fills the 1840s gap in displayed maps.

I hope that you find this map of use. Enjoy!

~ Rundle Street, Adelaide, South Australia, c1885 ~

A preview page displaying the first of many Old Adelaide Photos has just been displayed at adelaidephotos.com.au.

The image displayed on this preview page is of Rundle Street, Adelaide, South Australia, at 4.56pm, c1885, by Captain Samuel White Sweet. This is the first of many Adelaide and South Australian images that will be displayed at adelaidephotos.com.au

The preview page includes a very high quality enlargement of this image (3200 pixels wide x 2560 pixels high).

Enjoy this wonderful preview image!

~ Map Of London c1517 Preview Page ~

A preview page of London, Westminster And Southwark As In The Olden Times Shewing The City And Its Suburbs With The Churches, Monasteries, And All The Important Buildings As They Stood In The Reign Of Henry VIII Before The Reformation has just been displayed.

This pictorial map is highly detailed, and the preview page includes an huge enlarged view.

Enjoy this preview!

~ Map Of Surrey 1874 ~

A Map Of The County Of Surrey From Trigonometrical Survey With The Roads, Parks & Railways, By James Wyld, Geographer To The Queen, 1874, has just been displayed.

This map includes a comprehensive search engine, designed to search for results within the Surrey map pages only. Use the "Search This Map" function at the top of each page to search for place names in Wyld's 1874 map of Surrey.

The search feature is a fabulous addition to this wonderful map. My sincere thanks go to all who participated in this transcription project. Sincerely, thank you!

Enjoy this beautiful map of Surrey!

~ Map Of Surrey c1860 Preview Page ~

A preview page of Collins' Railway Map Of Essex c1860, published by Edward Stanford, 6 Charing Cross, S.W., has just been displayed.

This map will be fully scanned and displayed in 2010, hopefully with a fully indexed Place Name Search Engine.

Enjoy this preview!

~ Coming Soon ~

A series of 1901 Census maps will soon be displayed on the MAPCO website. The maps planned for display are of the 1901 Census Registration Districts for London, and the Counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey and Kent.

Look out for these maps and more in 2010!

~ COMING SOON ~

A panoramic view of Dublin from 1846 will soon be displayed on the MAPCO website. It is:

The City Of Dublin.
Being No. 1 Of A Series Of Views Of The Principal Capitals In Europe.
Presented Gratis To The Subscribers To The Illustrated London News.
Supplement to the Illustrated London News.
For The Week Ending Saturday, June 6, 1846.

Size: 40cms x 109cms (15¾" x 43")

This highly detailed birds-eye view of Dublin includes a Key to the Panorama, with principal buildings and features numbered and named.

This balloon view of Dublin will be on display soon.

Work is about to commence on the images and web pages for Bowles's Reduced New Pocket Plan Of The Cities Of London And Westminster With The Borough Of Southwark, Exhibiting The New Buildings To The Year 1775, previewed below (15 Sep 2008). This map should be on display in the next few weeks.

Work is also continuing on the Kent Place Names Transcription Project for Mudge's An Entirely New & Accurate Survey Of The County Of Kent, With Part Of The County Of Essex 1801. Volunteers are assisting with the transcription of place names from the map, and progress is extremely good. Hopefully this project and the Bowles 1775 map of London will be completed by the end of October.

The next map to be scanned for display will be Darton's An Entire New Plan Of The Cities Of London & Westminster, & Borough Of Southwark; The East & West India Docks, Regent's Park, New Bridges, &c. &c. With The Whole Of The New Improvements Of The Present Time 1817. This will be the second map of London from this decade (the other being Darton 1814), and is of particular interest in that it extends as far east as Greenwich. It is a highly decorative map, although it has some offsetting (transfer of the image from one part of the map to the other due to folding). This map will give me a chance to scan a London map for optimum use of the new wide format website design. I have displayed a preview photo below for your interest. The map includes proposals for Regent's Park, including "Intended Markets" on the eastern side, which became Cumberland & Clarence Markets. It also has great detail of Kensington Gardens.

Details are:

An Entire New Plan Of The Cities Of London & Westminster, & Borough Of Southwark; The East & West India Docks, Regent's Park, New Bridges, &c. &c. With The Whole Of The New Improvements Of The Present Time.
Published July 1st 1817 by W. Darton, Junr. 58 Holborn Hill. Engraved by G. Alexander, Clarks Place, Islington. 1817.
Size: 99cm x 48cm (39" x 19").
Hand-coloured map of London.
Howgego No. 268 (2)

Darton's Entire New Plan Of The Cities Of London & Westminster, & Borough Of Southwark 1817

An Entire New Plan Of The Cities Of London & Westminster, & Borough Of Southwark;
The East & West India Docks, Regent's Park, New Bridges, &c. &c.
With The Whole Of The New Improvements Of The Present Time.