Horwood, Richard

Richard Horwood (1757/8-1803) was a surveyor and cartographer. He is remembered for his large-scale plan of London and its suburbs published in 32 sheets between 1792 and 1799; he also published a plan of Liverpool in six sheets in 1803. His "Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster the Borough of Southwark and Parts adjoining Shewing every House" was at the time the largest map ever printed in Britain; it took almost ten years to complete, and is regarded as one of the finest 18th century maps of London. Despite acquiring royal patronage from King George III, the enormous cost of the project required Horwood to obtain a loan from the Phoenix Fire Office, a London fire insurance company, to whom the map is dedicated; however Horwood died in poverty just four years after the last sheet was completed. The plates of his London map passed to the cartographer and a publisher William Faden, who published three further updated and extended editions of the map, under Horwood's name and still fundamentally his work, in 1807, 1813 and 1819.

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Horwood London A1 Marylebone Road Lisson Grove Regents Park Baker St 1794 map

Horwood London A2 Marylebone Mayfair Hyde Park Bayswater Edgware Road 1794 map

Horwood London A3 Hyde Park Lane Serpentine Knightsbridge Belgravia 1794 map

Horwood London B1 Marylebone Fitzrovia Regents Park Tottenham Court Rd 1793 map

Horwood London B4 Pimlico Victoria Millbank Tothill Fields 1795 old map

Horwood London C1 Bloomsbury Somers Town Kings Cross St Pancras Euston 1799 map

Horwood London C3 Westminster Waterloo Whitehall Charing Cross Lambeth 1799 map

Horwood London C4 Westminster Millbank Vauxhall Lambeth Oval 1799 old map

Horwood London D1 Clerkenwell Pentonville Gray's Inn City Road 1799 old map

Horwood London D3 Waterloo Southwark South Bank Lambeth 1799 old antique map

Horwood London D4 Kennington Elephant & Castle Kennington Park Road 1799 map

Horwood London E1 Old Street Hoxton City Road Finsbury Bunhill Fields 1799 map

Horwood City of London E2 Moorfields Cheapside Cornhill Bishopsgate 1799 map

Horwood London F1 Shoreditch High Street Kingsland Rd Bethnal Green Rd 1799 map

Horwood City of London F2 Whitechapel Bishopsgate E. Smithfield Aldgate 1799 map

Horwood London G2 Whitechapel Road Shadwell Stepney Green Ratcliff 1799 map

Horwood/Faden London H1 Mile End Road Globe Town Stepney Green Bow 1807 map

Horwood/Faden London H2 Stepney Limehouse Ratcliff Commercial Road 1807 map

Horwood London H2 Stepney Limehouse Ratcliff Commercial Road 1799 old map

Horwood/Faden London I1 Bow Road Bow Bromley-by-Bow 1807 old antique map chart

Horwood/Faden London I3 Canary Wharf Poplar West India Docks Isle/Dogs 1807 map

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