Finsbury, London (Bunhill and Clerkenwell)

Finsbury is the crowded fringe just north of the City of London, around Bunhill Fields, City Road and Old Street, and its ma...

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Finsbury is the crowded fringe just north of the City of London, around Bunhill Fields, City Road and Old Street, and its maps and prints catch it at close quarters. Horwood's detailed plan of 1799 shows Bunhill Fields and City Road street by street, Charles Booth's poverty map of 1902 colours the streets around Old Street and St Luke's, and a Goad plan of 1934 marks individual buildings near the Artillery Ground and Chiswell Street. Parliamentary maps of 1842 and 1885 record the wider borough, reaching into Clerkenwell, Islington and Holborn. The prints include the Bunhill Fields burial ground, Bunhill Row, where Milton wrote Paradise Lost, and the election hustings and nominations on Clerkenwell Green in 1857 and 1865.

Finsbury is the crowded fringe just north of the City of London, around Bunhill Fields, City Road and Old Street, and its maps and prints catch it at close quarters. Horwood's detailed plan of 1799 shows Bunhill Fields and City Road street by street, Charles Booth's poverty map of 1902 colours the streets around Old Street and St Luke's, and a Goad plan of 1934 marks individual buildings near the Artillery Ground and Chiswell Street. Parliamentary maps of 1842 and 1885 record the wider borough, reaching into Clerkenwell, Islington and Holborn. The prints include the Bunhill Fields burial ground, Bunhill Row, where Milton wrote Paradise Lost, and the election hustings and nominations on Clerkenwell Green in 1857 and 1865.

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