'St Giles's in the Fields' parish. Bloomsbury. Seven Dials. 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 the northern part of Covent Garden and part of Bloomsbury, pprior to the later construction of Kingsway/Southampton Row & New oxford Street. The main thoroughfares marked include St Giles's High Street, Great Russell Street, High Holborn & Drury Lane. Seven Dials is shown in the bottom left. The eastern end of the 'Tiborn Road' (Oxford Street) is marked on the left hand edge, at its junction with 'Tottenham Road' (Tottenham Court Road). Montague House (later the British Museum), 'Southampton Square' (Bloomsbury Square), Great Queen Street & Lincoln's Inn Fields are also marked.
Size: 4602px × 3824px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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