The Copperplate Map of London is the earliest known map of London. The map was made inwards the 1550's as well as was made inwards 15 copperplate sections. The 15 copper plates were used to impress newspaper copies of the map (none of which survive).
Unfortunately solely 3 of the master copy engraved copper plates survive. Two of the plates are owned past times the Museum of London. If you lot are able to catch the museum inwards individual you lot tin sentiment the Moorfields plate, which is on permanent display.
Unfortunately in that location is no interactive mapped version of whatever of the 3 surviving plates of the Copperplate Map. However, you lot tin sentiment an interactive version of the Agas Map. The Agas Map of London was made or as well as then 10 years later the Copperplate Map as well as is a modified re-create of the master copy Copperplate Map.
The Agas Map depicts a London which is nonetheless a walled metropolis as well as where the banks of the Thames are dotted amongst acquit pits as well as playhouses. If you lot hold off at the Moorfields department of both maps you lot tin encounter how the Agas Map is derived from the Copperplate Map.
Detail from the Copperplate Map (left) & Agas Map (right)
Both maps role the same bird's nub sentiment of London. Both maps demo washerwomen as well as practicing archers at function inwards the fields. Even the map labels as well as their placement are almost identical inwards both maps. This marking of derivation is evident throughout the Agas Map.
The Agas Map of Early Modern London is an interactive version of the Agas Map built using the OpenLayers platform. You tin pan as well as zoom inwards on the map as well as you lot tin explore locations on the map using the location categories menu. For illustration if you lot plow on the streets layer you lot tin click on a route on the map to acquire to a greater extent than nigh the selected route as well as its etymology.
The Map of Early London website includes a comprehensive encyclopedia of London people, places as well as topics featured inwards or of import to the map. The interactive locations on the map connect amongst the encyclopedia. If you lot pick out a location from the map or from the locations bill of fare you lot tin read a brusque introduction to the location as well as click through to read the amount encyclopedia entry.
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