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A new map of medieval London
Deliciously detailed 13th century plan. And a Tudor one, too.
We can see individual parish boundaries, the route of the city wall, long-lost buildings like Baynard’s Castle and Montfichet’s Tower, churchyards, wharfs, moats and channels. Their starting point for both the Medieval and Tudor maps was a 1989 volume called The City of London from Prehistoric Times to c.1520, edited by Mary D Lobel. My thanks to Professor Vanessa Harding for taking the trouble to explain the background to this wonderful project, and to the wider team for furnishing me with two stupendous new maps to drool over
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