Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet D1 - Holborn, Clerkenwell, Farringdon, Barbican, Westminster, Smithfield Market collectible hydrographic chart indigenous heritage

indigenous heritage

renowned for its grace

and Caldicot and Magor are both marked in the low-lying country near the Severn estuary

and Limerick

Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet D1 - Holborn, Clerkenwell, Farringdon, Barbican, Westminster, Smithfield Market collectible hydrographic chart indigenous heritageBetween 1741 and 1745, the surveyor John Rocque and the engraver John Pine carried out one of the most ambitious mapping projects of the eighteenth century: a plan of London, Westminster, and Southwark so large and detailed that, when finally published in 1746, it required twenty four separate sheets to cover the whole city. This print reproduces sheet D1, one of the central sheets of that survey, covering the dense heart of London north of the Thames