Old Map of London, 1746 by John Rocque - C2 - Somerset House Covent Garden Seven Dials Waterloo, Charring Cross, Westminster Lambeth Size:12x16in (30x40cm) Ormskirk and many more

Ormskirk and many more

Mid and East Sussex are already visible in this map - including: Worthing

At 150cm wide

By the 1890s there was a rather heated race to the North Pole

The map shows the Roman Empire at its largest

Old Map of London, 1746 by John Rocque - C2 - Somerset House Covent Garden Seven Dials Waterloo, Charring Cross, Westminster Lambeth Size:12x16in (30x40cm) Ormskirk and many moreThis is the greatest old map of London ever created. Put together by surveyor and cartographer John Rocque and engraver John Pine in 1746, this map has an incredible level of detail. The cities of London and Westminster are already quite developed, but south of the river in Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham it's still mostly fields. This map was originally published in 24 sheets. The map shown here is sheet C2, focusing on the bend in the river Thames