The Parish of St Martin's in the Fields. Covent Garden &c. 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 St Martins-in-the-fields parish, along with (inset) the new buildings belonging to the parish around Hanover Square. This includes much of the West End and Covent Garden. The main thoroughfares shown include The Strand, Haymarket & Long Acre. The maps stretches from Whitehall at the bottom to Drury Lane at the top. Charing Cross and the King's News are shown on the present site of Trafalgar Square. Other streets marked inclide Scotland Yard, 'Leicester Fields' (Leicester Square). Inset, the "new buildings belonging to St Martin's Parish" shown around Hanover Square, south of the "Tiborn Road" (Oxford Street) include Bond Street and Conduit Street.
Size: 3742px × 4476px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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