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James Basire, Plan presented to the House of Commons, of a street proposed from Charing Cross to Portland Place, leading to the Crown Estate in Mary-le-Bone Park, 1813

This original design for Regent Street was commissioned by the House of Commons. The title appears along the top, with a descriptive note below the…

Tags: 19th Century, London, urban planning

William Morgan, London &c., accurately surveyed by Wm Morgan, His Majesty Cosmographer, 1681

This is a later edition of the map of London and the built up area around it first issued by Morgan in 1681-82. The title of the map is missing. Also…

Tags: 17th century, England, London, urban planning

John Leake, Wenceslas Hollar, London after the Fire dated 1667, 1667

A map of the City of London prepared by John Leake, William Leybourne and four others, to show the extent of the area devastated by the Great Fire of…

Tags: 17th century, London, urban planning

Christopher Wren, architect
John Rocque, draughtsman, A Plan for Rebuilding the City of London, After the Great Fire in 1666, but Unhappily Defeated by Faction, 1758

This is a reduced version of Sir Christopher Wren's plan for rebuilding London after the Great Fire which destroyed seven-eighths of the city.

This…

Tags: 17th century, London, urban planning