The Historic Cities Belief has created a contemporary map of Medieval London. The map depicts London as it existed on the finish of the thirteenth Century utilizing trendy mapping strategies. The map relies on archaeological and historic data.
You may discover an interactive model of the Medieval London map on Layers of London (verify the ‘Use this overlay’ field after which zoom in on the Metropolis of London space on the map. You may additionally need to choose the ‘Disguise Pins’ button).
One factor you’ll discover whereas searching the map is that the road title labels are written in Center English. For instance the fashionable avenue title of ‘Ludgate Hill’ is depicted on the Medieval London map as ‘Ludgatstrete’. If a Center English placename confuses you then you should use the ‘eye’ button within the ‘overlay instruments’ pop-up menu to show off the Medieval Map and look at the fashionable place-name beneath (presuming the road nonetheless exists). You can too use the Grub Avenue Mission web site to seek for historic London place-names and to find what these areas are often known as now.
After all the Historic Cities Belief’s trendy map of Medieval London was not how a map of London would have truly appeared throughout the thirteenth Century. On the time most depictions of London would have introduced a panoramic view of town and never an in depth true map.
One of many first ‘true’ map depictions of London may be seen within the Civitas Londinum, extra generally often known as the Agas Map of London. The Agas map dates from the 1560s and gives a hen’s eye view of London. It due to this fact would not present a real overhead plan of town (London is depicted from a viewpoint someplace above the south financial institution of the Thames). Nonetheless not like earlier panoramic views of London the buildings on the Agas map do not obscure the streets behind these buildings. So the Agas map does work as a real map of sixteenth Century London.
You can too purchase a print of the Medieval London map from the Historic Cities Belief.
By way of: A New Map of Medieval London