The parish of St Dunstan's, Stepney'. Mile End. Wapping. STOW/STRYPE, 1720 map
Artist/engraver/cartographer: Published by John Strype from a plate originally published by John Stow. Provenance: "A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities. Written at first in the year 1598, by John Stow, citizen and native of London .. Corrected, improved, and very much enlarged .. by John Strype, MA, a native also of the said city", London, printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, R. Robinson, and , MDCCXX. Type: Copperplate engraved map. The map shows what were then the scattered hamlets of Mile End (left hand side and centre), Bethnal Green (top), Wapping and Stepney (lower left hand corner), Limehouse (bottom) and Poplar (lower right hand corner), at the top end of the Isle of Dogs. The Whitechapel Road runs west to east across the map.
Size: 5066px × 3577px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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