Author: ORDNANCE SURVEY
Title: Ordnance Survey Map of Hackney, Dalston, Parts of Islington and Shoreditch 1851
Description: Southampton, Ordnance Survey. 1851. Book, Ordnance Survey map of Hackney Dalston parts of Islington and Shoreditch. published by the Ordnance Survey Southampton 1851 (Sheet 14). On folding linen in 12 sections size 40 by 27 inches scale 12 inches to the mile or 1:5280. Reduced from the skeleton plans surveyed and engraved by the OS under Captain Yelland 1848-51. It was the result of a survey designed to form the basis of a new set of maps of the capital prompted by concerns about public health and the lack of any accurate map of showing the levels of the area to be drained. Previous OS maps had not shown London in such detail. The map shows streets in outline and includes every street railway and canal with heights above sea level shown in hundreds of places .Covers an area from the Ball's Pond Road across to Hackney Marshes in the north and from Old Street to Bow Road in the south. Some foxing and fading with damp spotting mainly to margins. Good condition. Images available.

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