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Local Historical Maps
The Tower Hamlets Local Studies Library and Archives collection contains over 2,000 maps and plans dating from Elizabethan times to the present day. The collection includes large-scale Ordnance Survey maps, street plans and some parish and estate maps.
Maps For Sale
The Local studies Library and Archives have a wide range of maps for sale. The maps available are:
Coloured maps (boroughwide):
Date: 1809 Price: £1.95 plus £2 post and packing.
Date: 1819 Price: £1.95 plus £2 post and packing.
Date: 1829 Price: £1.95 plus £2 post and packing.
Date: 1839 Price: £1.95 plus £2 post and packing.
Date: 1847 Price: £1.95 plus £2 post and packing.
Set of five coloured maps 1809-1847
Price: £9.00 plus £2 post and packing.
Stanford's maps of London, 1862 (4 sheets of the area).
Price: £2 per sheet plus £2 post and packing.
Maps Online
A number of useful historic maps of the Tower Hamlets area are now available online. Check out:
Greenwood's Map of London, 1827
Baldwin and Cradock's Environs of London, 1832
