{"id":4352,"date":"2014-06-23T12:06:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T18:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2014-06-23T13:35:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:35:36","slug":"london-map-of-1804","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/?p=4352","title":{"rendered":"London Map of 1804"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve mentioned this website here before and I\u2019m sure well-traveled authors\u00a0already know of it, but I recently had reason to revisit mapco.net again to find a pre-Regency map of London and wanted to share my find.<\/p>\n

The next stories in the affairs of Charlotte House and Jane Woodsen are set in London and\u00a0take place over a wide area\u00a0from Grosvenor Square, Miss House\u2019s home, to the\u00a0East End and the Isle of Dogs and the East India Docks, an unsavory location for such gentlewomen to be I know, but a lot of fun to write. Our Mutual Friends<\/em>, the sequel to My Particular Friends<\/em>, obviously has a nod to Mr. Dicken\u2019s Our Mutual Friend<\/em>, so expect something quite different to the Bath adventures of Charlotte and Jane. The river plays a large part of the story and there\u2019s a nice website dedicated to the river here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At mapco.net, I found the\u00a01804 Wallis map of London, which is perfect for helping me map my\u00a0story. It\u2019s a huge map and for my own use, I’ve assembled it into a 16,800-by-6,332 pixel\u00a0PhotoShop document. I include it here as a more reasonable 5,000-by-1,885 pixel jpg. Click the thumbnail above to see the larger map, or better yet, visit\u00a0http:\/\/mapco.net\/wallis1804\/wallis06.htm<\/a> to see the entire map.<\/p>\n

You can also click here to see the map in a new window<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This map is quite useful because it strips London of all the Victorian improvements that define the city and the Thames as we know it today. The Victoria and Chelsea embankments designed\u00a0by Joseph Bazalgette are in the future. Somerset House is still by the river so that strange little arch visitors see while walking along the embankment makes sense.<\/p>\n