T5 Site 01: Walworth Road, Histories and Planning Policies

History (ref. Southwark Council, Old maps of Southwark)

John Rcque's John Rocque's A Plan of London, 1766 Fragment
In this earlier plan of London Rocque soberly describes a physical superiority of London over Paris. The header text calculates London to be 8 ½ square miles compared to Paris's 6 ⅓ square miles. Did Rocque's royal patronage oblige upon him this subtle exercise in cartographic propaganda or was he simply emboldened by his position?

Plan of London free from the United Kingdom Newspaper, 1832
A rather generous giveaway from the United Kingdom Newspaper from 1832. The title reads: Plan of London from actual survey 1832. Presented gratis to the readers of the United Kingdom Newspaper by their obliged & humble servants, The Proprietors.


Kennington to Peckham, circa 1830.
This map includes the Kennington, Walworth, Peckham and Camberwell areas around 1830. Note the marshy land where the Bricklayers railway depot later stood and the slightly dramatic hill shading around Denmark Hill.


Stanford's Map of the County of London 1894
This detailed map shows the central southern section of Stanford's Map of the County of London. Note the commercial docks in Rotherhithe and the profusion of railway lines leading to the former Bricklayers goods depot on the Old Kent Road.


Walworth to Penge 1894 to 1896 Fragment
This detailed map shows building detail from Walworth to Penge and from Brixton to Deptford. Note the detail of the Crystal Palace before it burnt down in 1936.

Panning Policies