UK Maps - London maps especially

Modern

http://maps.google.com/ this is amazing - do explore -
example To find a London suburb "Bethnal Green, London" or a street Poyser St, Bethnal Green
2009 has street view

Microsoft http://maps.live.com/has Birds Eye view - sort of looking down whereas Street View is right up close

STREETMAP http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ for London suburbs - tick GB Place for search

Street numbers and distance between places MULTIMAP - http://uk.multimap.com/ also with Bird Eye View

Maporama http://www.maporama.com/share/
Good access to many maps http://www.streetfinder.co.uk
Ordnance Survey http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/ and http://www.election-maps.co.uk/
London postal districts http://www.city.ac.uk/accommodation/postcode.htm
London Districts http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=38869&filename=fig01.gif
Any-Villagesite http://www.any-village.co.uk/map.asp
London Town http://www.londontown.com/ lots of places for a visit - try the maps especially the boroughs
and similar http://www.touruk.co.uk/ Lots on UK and London including churches
Beginners' Guide to UK Geography http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/beginners_guide.asp
Map of London boroughs. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/london_boroughs.asp

Exploring the East End of London - "suburbs" and quick maps of the area

Place Names

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/kepn/browse.php

and another http://www.francisfrith.com/archive/
and http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/didyouknow/ plus look at their maps

ParLoc is useful, free program, it can be downloaded: http://www.parloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Frame.htm It is a parish locator - one can type in parish names, find surrounding ones, distances between them, etc. It gives OS map references, so can be used in conjunction with an online or 'real' map for visual reference.

LDS Parish etc maps see England Jurisdictions 1851 - http://maps.familysearch.org

Maps and Information 1801-2001 http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp

Historic

Wonderful collection Images of early maps on the web: 12b. British Isles

Baedeker's Old Guide Books - do explore

Old Maps - London

Information and Maps http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/LND/#Maps
London 1900 Pocket Atlas can find with other goodies on http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nmfa/genealogy.html
Wonderful maps of London from 1705 to 1862 from www.motco.com Maps Index http://www.motco.com/map/

The 1799 Harwood also has numbers for each house - of course numbers have changed since then but if you find your folks in a directory the map will place them in street. http://www.motco.com/map/81005/ this site has information on house number changes http://www.geocities.com/cheniesuk/census/1877.html
London 1830 http://www.motco.com/map/81003/ and 1862 http://www.motco.com/map/81006/
1862 also at http://www.mappalondon.com/ the Motco has an Index of Street names but the maps are small - find it in Motco and then look at larger map for overview of area

The excellent David Hale's MAPCO : Map And Plan Collection Online has includes a lot of wonderfully scanned maps of London - just click on the map area to enlarge. And not just London images - David has many maps - well worth a visit.

Maps on the London Pub site http://visiteastlondon.net/MapsofLondon.htm
1895 or 1854 http://www.victorianlondon.org/frame-maps.htm

Map 1859: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/map1859.html
Map 1889 http://www.umich.edu/~risotto/maxzooms/sw/swe910.html
Map 1899 http://booth.lse.ac.uk
London 1905 by Karl Baedeker http://contueor.com/baedeker/london/index.htm links to GB 1910
http://oldlondonmaps.com/index.html
Charles Booth archive http://booth.lse.ac.uk/
London Ancestor http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/maps.htm
1922 Bartholomews Pocket Atlas and many more at http://www.hipkiss.org/data/maps.html

Lost Streets - London

London Street disappear over the years especially after WW2 and some have their name changed. I frequently use Kelly's Trade Directories to find old London streets so see my page on Directories. Then use the old maps to find the street and compare to modern maps.

National Archives: Historical Streets Project - new from TNA in 2009 - may help you find streets and especially a census reference - warning URl changing 2012

1831 Topographical Dictionary of London ... - Google Book - very detailed list of streets and places them in relation to their area.

Road Name changes

INNER LONDON STREET NAME CHANGES http://www.rayment.info/general/road_name_changes/14_2A_Inner_London_Streets_Old_Names.html

London Street name changes and their London Miscellany - some good lists may help also site has lots of maps etc for sale

Many people know the site Lost streets (lost london.inuk.com also members .aol. com/WHall95037/london.html Aug 2005 neither seems to be working BUT the archive is at <http://web.archive.org/web/20041129033726/http://members.aol.com/WHall95037/london.html> NOTE - Research-UK's name is on the site - I understand they have ceased business

Verify name at Victorian London A-Z Street Index http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/index.html#HOME
If still problems finding street and you have looked at 1862 map etc above - try the London list see http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/LONDON.html

London Street atlases and directories for sale on CD http://www.archivecdbooks.com

And they did have a CD on Street name changes http://www.archivecdbooks.org/

London House numbers

Beware you may have found your ancestors house number on Google street view but it may not be their house.

London streets have often been re-numbered - here is in an example A case study Shakespeare Road SE24 Herne Hill in Brixton

The 1799 Harwood also has numbers for each house - of course numbers have changed since then but if you find your folks in a directory the map will place them in a street. http://www.motco.com/map/81005/

some interesting points on Britain and London in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering

Numbering along one side and then back down the other was changed to odds one side and even the other

I think I've seen some re-numbering in early 1800s. Also Kelly's directories have a section with houses in a street (not all just those of businesses etc) the numbers in 1856 show streets with little blocks of houses maybe called a terrace or some such but the numbers are just for that block. By 1861 census many of these streets some very major have obviously been re-numbered and now have a long series of numbers rather than little blocks. Note: The USA system of very large house numbers is not normal in UK.

House numbers changed again in 1900s and especially after WW2 streets disappear or are re-numbered

Some old houses have number on the fanlight above the door - some of these are the old numbers so may show a change in the street

For London, the LMA hold the Middlesex Deeds Registry, 1709-1938.
Indexed but not online.
See
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/76365D2C-B83C-461E-91A9-C5FBA8D26963/0/infono7.pdf

This may help http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/

And the local council archives should know what happened in their area

Getting a picture of 363 Brixton Rd - shows how I knew the house in Street view was one I wanted except for the bus in front

A study of house numbers and which house is it now

1880s Shakespeare Rd and Percy Terrace Brixton - home to Thomas Lankshear and Henry Carpenter

Old Maps - UK

6 inch maps 1850-90 http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ - these are fantastic I could zoom into the farms our folks had in Oxfordshire in 18th century.
Comments by someone else "There's a superb on-line resource for historical maps started for genealogical research but very comprehensive -- at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/
Lots of Information http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp
Scans from around UK http://www.yourmapsonline.org.uk/index1.htm some very good maps
Mainly selling maps - which you may want http://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk -- http://www.village-atlas.com/

Mostly USA - David Rumsey collection http://www.davidrumsey.com/