The oldest surviving complete map of London is to go on display as part of a new exhibition. 📱More here: 📸 London Metropolitan Archives
Only three copies of Civitas Londinium, which shows the capital during Tudor times, are known to existCivitas Londinium was created in the 1570s and gives a view across the capital, from the bear-baiting pits of Southwark to the fields of Highgate.
Only three prints of it, all dating from 1633, are known to exist, while its creator is also unknown.John Leake's map of the city in 1667 shows the extent of the damage caused by the Great Fire of London It was finished in 1667 and highlights the damage caused by the blaze, which destroyed more than 13,000 houses, nearly 90 churches, the Royal Exchange and St. Paul's Cathedral.The water pump, identified by John Snow as the cause of a cholera outbreak, can still be found on Broadwick Street
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