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Urban and metropolitan history > Maps and plans (historic, pre-1800)

Sources for metropolitan London and other urban centres.

1	Morgan's map of the whole of London in 1682 Digitised: 12 July 2004 • Urban and metropolitan history Survey of the City of London and the surrounding built-up area (including Westminster and part of Southwark), on a scale of 300 feet to the inch, completed in 1682 by William Morgan. From the facsimile produced for the London Topographical Society, 1904.
2	Ogilby and Morgan's large scale map of the city as rebuilt by 1676 Digitised: 22 June 2004 • Urban and metropolitan history Survey of the City of London by John Ogilby and William Morgan, on a scale of 100 feet to the inch, completed in 1676.
3	'Woodcut' map of London c. 1550 Digitised: 27 April 2004 • Urban and metropolitan history Produced in c. 1633, depicting the City of London in the 1560s. It probably derives from the 'Copperplate' map of. c.1560 of which three sheets are extant.
4	James de la Feuille's map of London c. 1690 Digitised: 23 April 2004 • Urban and metropolitan history One of a number of small maps of London produced in Amsterdam before 1720, derived from Hollar's 'New Mapp' of 1675.
5	Leake's survey of the city after the Great Fire of 1666 Engraved by W. Hollar, 1667Digitised: 23 April 2004 • Urban and metropolitan history A map of the City of London prepared by John Leake, William Leybourne and four others, to show the extent of the area devastated by the Great Fire of 1666.