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    The "Woodcut" map of London, formally titled Civitas Londinum, and often referred to as the "Agas" map of London, is one of the earliest true maps (as...
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    City of London Corporation Interactive maps (Electoral services: Ward boundaries) "Gardens of the City of London". Gardens of the City of London. Archived...
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  • medieval times, and is one of the streets shown on a map known as the "Woodcut map of London" or the "Agas" map, which survives in a 17th-century version. Its...
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    aim of attacking and subduing the bull by biting and holding onto its nose or neck, which often resulted in the death of the bull. Crowds in London during...
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  • is shown in a series of detailed maps, particularly John Rocque's 1741–45 map (see below) and his 1746 Map of London. New districts such as Mayfair were...
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    The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the most recent major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. It happened within...
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    the "Copperplate" map of London, dating to the 1550s, and on the derivative "Woodcut" map of the 1560s. It was described by the London historian John Stow...
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    The "Copperplate" map of London is an early large-scale printed map of the City of London and its immediate environs, surveyed between 1553 and 1559,...
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    Brick Lane (category Streets in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
    local brick earth deposits. The street featured in the 16th-century Woodcut map of London as a partially developed crossroad leading north from the city's...
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    in the form Spittellond in 1399; as The spitel Fyeld on the "Woodcut" map of London of c.1561; and as Spyttlefeildes, also in 1561. The land belonged...
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    Shad Thames (category Districts of London on the River Thames)
    corner of the SE1 postcode district. The "Woodcut" map of London of c. 1561 calls the general area "Horssey Down". The 1872 Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map calls...
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    chapel, although an additional wing had been added by the date of the "Woodcut" map of London, drawn probably in the early 1560s. Expansion continued over...
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    In 1563, London experienced its worst episode of plague during the sixteenth century. At least 20,136 people in London and surrounding parishes were recorded...
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    Royal Mews (category Mews streets in London)
    function. On old maps, such as the "Woodcut" map of London of the early 1560s, the Mews can be seen extending back towards the site of today's Leicester...
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    woodcuts, an increasingly common process from 1500 onwards was the creation of prints from huge woodcuts and woodblocks. Jacopo de' Barbari's map of Venice...
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    Peter Martyr map is a Spanish woodcut map composed in 1511 or 1514 and included in most or some copies of the 1511 edition of Decades of the New World...
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  • Fairmount, Baltimore City Civitas Londinum, the formal title of the 16th-century Woodcut map of London Sancta Civitas, a 20th-century oratorio by Ralph Vaughan...
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    discoveries of the last years of the fifteenth and the first years of the sixteenth centuries. It consists of twelve sections printed from woodcuts measuring...
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    Dürer's Rhinoceros (category Woodcuts)
    Dürer's Rhinoceros is the name commonly given to a woodcut executed by German artist Albrecht Dürer in 1515. Dürer never saw the actual rhinoceros, which...
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    of Antwerp promoted its present name in 1613. The earliest surviving maps on the projection appear as crude woodcut drawings of terrestrial globes of...
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  • Humphrey Mackworth (Parliamentarian) (category Members of the Privy Council of England)
    secured control of his estates. She then married Adam Ottley of London, son of Richard Ottley of Pitchford Hall, Shropshire, by whom she had another son,...
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    printed star chart, a 1515 set of woodcut portraits produced by Albrecht Dürer in Nuremberg, Germany. During the European Age of Discovery, expeditions to...
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    Ralph Agas (section Maps)
    hoping to undertake a survey of London, but had not done so. On the dubious evidence of this statement, a link with the Woodcut map was first made by the late...
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    Cartography (redirect from Map making)
    the Renaissance: woodcut and copper-plate intaglio, referring to the medium used to transfer the image onto paper. In woodcut, the map image is created...
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    Fantasy cartography, fictional map-making, or geofiction is a type of map design that visually presents an imaginary world or concept, or represents a...
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    Island.: 146–147  A Latin woodcut of the "first European map" published by Johann Reger [de] in Ulm in 1486 and thought to be one of the earliest surviving...
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    located in Central London, part of Farringdon Without, the most westerly ward of the City of London, England. Smithfield is home to a number of City institutions...
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    printers of the United States. In a reprint of Hubbard's narratives in 1865, editor Samuel G. Drake described the map as "the curious Woodcut Map." Pfeiffer...
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  • Essex. Of those windmills known to have existed, nine remain and are preserved; as are the tide mills at Three Mills, West Ham. c.1563 "Woodcut" (or "Agas")...
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    80 Coleman Street (category Grade II listed buildings in the City of London)
    generation to generation. The "Woodcut" map of London of c.1561 shows the site of No.80 Coleman Street occupied by some part of two small houses immediately...
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