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Old London Maps

It's always lovely to try and find where our ancestors once lived isn't it? The sad thing is though, that many address we have from the early Census returns, no longer exist. For many reasons, including War and major redevelopment, rows of houses and entire streets and areas no longer exist how they used to. Luckily for us, there is a wealth of maps available online, detailing what streets and areas of London at the end of the 19th Century and start of the 20th.

While it may not let us see what the properties looked like, it can be a great acheivement to be able to place the roads that these people once lived in. I have included a selection of maps that I have found around the internet that have been a great help to me in my Research.

Lodon Civil Parishes 1870 A colour coded map showing the break down of all the Parishes covering East London c.1870	London Bethnal Green 1940 London street map, Bethnal Green area c. 1940	London Undergound Map 1911 A great map showing how the London Underground network looked in 1911! May not be much help genealogically, but quite interesting to see!
London East End 1882 Large map showing the Whitechapel and Commercial Road areas c.1882	Liberty of Norton Folgate 1900 Map showing the boundary area of the Liberty of Norton Folgate. It was located between the Bishopsgate ward of the City of London to the south, the parish of St Leonard, Shoreditch to the north and the parish of Spitalfields to the east. Map c.1900	East London 1900 Large map detailing areas of East London, including Whitechapel, Commercial Road and Shoreditch. c. 1900
Bethnal Green and Victoria Park 1905 London Bethnal Green and Victoria Park areas c. 1905	London East End 1905 London' East End area, including the Docks c.1905	London Bethnal Green & Hackney 1922 London map showing areas of Bethnal Green and Hackney, plus Victoria Park c. 1922
London City and East End 1922 City of London and East End c. 1922	London Whitechapel 1940	London Stepney 1940
London Shoreditch & Brick Lane 1940	London Mile End Road 1940	London Whitechapel 1940 London's Whitechapel area, including Liverpool Street Station and Aldgate c. 1940