'Tower Street Ward'. City of London. Thames St. Mark Lane. 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 part of the City of London, to the west of the Tower. The main throughfares shown are Lower Thames Street, Great Tower Street, Mincing Lane, Mark Lane & Seething Lane. Old Billingsgate Dock and the Custom House are depicted on the river. St Dunstans church, the Navy Office and Crutched Friars are also marked.


Size: 4552px × 3758px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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