Title

'The Site of Leicester Square', (1881). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'The Site of Leicester Square', (1881). Map showing the countryside in what would later become Westminster, London. Roads marked include Haymarket and St Martin's Lane. Leicester Square was laid out in 1670. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1881

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19D50_301

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

62,5Mb (2,9Mb) / 17,5in x 13,9in / 5256 x 4156 (300dpi)

Keywords

city countryside road London England field fields job square street country occupation British English lane avenue Westminster farmland location century Britain profession B&W MONOCHROME haymarket leicester square publication 19th century black & white black and white B W publisher 16th century nineteenth century sixteenth century City of Westminster The Print Collector TGN map Old and New London Cassell Unknown Edward Walford Edward Walford Cassell & Company Ltd Petter Galpin & Co Galpin & Company Edward Walford map