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Old Map of London (All) Edmonton - Plumstead - Beckenham - Chiswick circa 1847

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Ref: Lon024, 1847, James Wyld

A New Topographical Map of the Country in the Vicinity of London, describing all the improvements. Title and imprint in the border above the map. The margin is divided into miles N.S.E.&W. of the meridian parallel of St.Paul's.

Edmonton - Plumstead - Beckenham - Chiswick
including the counties of Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent.

Old London map describing all the new improvements circa 1847. This attractive map of the country around London was first published by William Faden in 1810, James Wyld acquiring the plates on Fadens death in 1836. This map dates to 1847 and it shows how the railways, marked in red, had rapidly expanded in the few years since London's first railway from Greenwich to London Bridge opened in 1836, connecting London and it's suburbs. Following this, three further London stations were built - Euston in 1837, Paddington in 1838, and Fenchurch Street Station in 1841.

The original Euston Arch, a 70 ft doric arch built in 1837, was the original entrance to Euston Station. Considered by some as an eyesore, by others as the first iconic building of the railway age, the original arch was demolished in 1961. After it's demolition the stone pieces were lost & forgotten until historian Dan Cruickshank, who had been searching for the rubble, discovered in 1994 that the stones had been purchased by British Waterways in 1962 and used to plug a hole in the bottom of the Prescott Channel in Bow, East London, a flood relief channel for the River Lea built in the 1930's. The stones were raised from the river bed, and a further 29 stones were discovered in 2009 during the construction of the Olympic Park.

The Hammersmith Bridge you see on this map was the first suspension bridge to span the River Thames, designed by William Clark and opened in 1827. The bridge is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The current bridge was built in 1887, designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette. Structural problems led to weaknesses within the bridge and it was closed indefinitely to traffic in April 2019. During its lifetime, the bridge has been bombed three times - in 1939,1996, and 2000.

When this map was published:

The Corn Laws are repealed in 1846. The planet Neptune was discovered by Couch Adams of Cambridge and Urbain Le Verrier of France. In 1847 in London the Communist League is founded by Marx, Engels & Born. The USA gains Texas, New Mexico & California, ceded from Mexico, in 1848. London's population rises to over 2,000,000.

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