Old London Maps and views

Item: #555, Posted: 24/5/06

Further to the last item about old Ordnance Survey maps, I've come across another site which offers old maps and views of London from the 16th - 19th centuries.

There a few windmills I've spotted to be seen:

P Huart's view in the 1640s - near the Tower of London
Newcourt's An Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs. Drawn in 1658, and published in facsimile by Edward Stanford 1863 - On the opposite bank to Somerset House, Near St Gyles's Feilds, A group of 6 mills north of Moore Feilds, White Chapel, St Georges, Southwark
London and Westminster in the Time of Henry VIII (pre 1530s) Compiled from Ancient Documents and Other Authentic Sources by William Newton in 1855 Clerkenwell, 3 on Moor Field,
Merian's View across burning London during the Great Fire in 1666 - Whitehall, The Tower
St Paul's Cathedral c. 1702 - mill in foreground
New roads from Westminster Bridge in May 1753, taken from the Gentleman's Magazine - 4 mills in Lambeth
John Fairburn's Plan of Westminster and London 1801 - A number of mills ("Millwall") on the Isle of Dogs
Greenwood, Pringle & Co., 13 Regent Street, Pall Mall, August 21, 1827 - Millwall

Update: [15/6/06] There's a new map of the Isle of Dogs been added: A Plan of the River Thames from the Tower to Blackwall Taken by the Corporation of Trinity House in the Year 1750 that gives names to the 9 mills it shows along Millwall. From the north, these are Lead Mill, Oil Houses, Stile's, Kent's, Pyes, Saunder's, Bingley's, Lewi's [sic], Nashe's, Tags: [london] [maps]