Welcome to Locating London's Past
This website allows you to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map.
Historical background
Records of crime, poor relief, taxation, elections, local administration, plague deaths and archaeological finds can all be searched and mapped on this site.
Historical background and datasets
The Map
Building on a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map of London, this site allows you to relate an eighteenth-century representation of the metropolis to the first accurate OS map of London (1869-80), and to a modern Google Maps environment.
Winner of the BSECS Prize for Digital Resources 2014
Choose a data set ...
Old Bailey
London Lives
London Lives Additional Datasets
- Fire Insurance
- Four Shillings in the Pound Tax
- London and Westminster Directory
- PCC Wills
- St. Botolph Aldgate Parish Registers
- Westminster Historical Database (ratebooks)
- Westminster Historical Database (votes)
Centre for Metropolitan History
Museum of London Archaeology
Other
