Old Map of London and Environs in 1822 by Thompson - Isle of Dogs, Bermondsey, Deptford, Covent Garden, Westminster Seattle architectural history Hand-coloured detail reveals hundreds of

Hand-coloured detail reveals hundreds of street names

and where Georgian terraces now stood alongside Norman walls

Designed in a classic Mercator projection

standing prominently before its later move to St George's Fields

a scope wide enough to catch the docks rising along the Thames

Old Map of London and Environs in 1822 by Thompson - Isle of Dogs, Bermondsey, Deptford, Covent Garden, Westminster Seattle architectural history Hand-coloured detail reveals hundreds ofBy 1822, London was expanding faster than any city in Europe, swallowing villages and market gardens on every side of the old City and Westminster. It was this restless growth that the engraver Thompson set out to capture in his New Map of London and its Environs, published that year by the firm of Reeves & Hoare. The map was drawn from an original survey stretching some eight miles east to west and six and a quarter miles north to south, a scope wide