Is this London’s first 3D map? The vivid and historic map of London in 1842, coloured by district, has one unusual feature – it’s embossed.
More...The London Blue Plaque Guide
London has a lot of history, of course, and a lot of blue plaques have been erected by English Heritage over the years to mark
More...Currency and Cartography
Currency and Cartography is an solo exhibition by artist Justine Smith, available to view in the gallery space at The Map House in Knightsbridge, a
More...Fuller’s London Town
Artist Gareth J Wood, aka Fuller, unveiled this striking black-and-white map-based artwork over London, yesterday. The work was started way back in 2005, and after
More...London Connections: A Geographic Tube Map
[Updated – Thanks to this blog post, this map is now officially on the TfL website – read on!] The Transport for London (TfL) tube
More...Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945
Several years ago, we featured some striking maps from a small exhibition at the London Metropolitan Archive. Each map was a detailed plan of a
More...London Landmarks Jigsaw Puzzle
London Landmarks is a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of a stylised map/view of central London, drawn by Maria Rabinky and produced by Gibsons, and is possibly
More...London Tourist Map
This lovely map, drawn isometrically with individual building detail, was created by Oxford Cartographers for Southeastern Railway back in 2006 as a weekend/tourist map, which
More...DNA Trail
Thought that the Shaun the Sheeps were the only London pop-up sculpture trail that you were getting this summer? Well the sheep may be gone
More...Night Tube Map
Transport for London are introducing an all-night service for parts of the London Underground, for Friday and Saturday nights from September. They have today unveiled
More...Public Gardens
London has some grand gardens, many open to the public, and often with a special map to help with their exploration. Here are some of
More...Green Wedges
This map, “A Plan for Greater London”, is a 1943 masterplan for the rebuilding and enlargement of London, following the damage of the Blitz. Instead
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