Old Map of London St Giles in 1720 by John Strype and John Stow - Great Russell Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, High Holborn, Drury Lane Size:A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED that magnificent Roman frontier running

that magnificent Roman frontier running across the landscape

Mary’s River

topographical elements

Printed on matte paper for a clear

Old Map of London St Giles in 1720 by John Strype and John Stow - Great Russell Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, High Holborn, Drury Lane Size:A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED that magnificent Roman frontier runningThis plan of the parish of St Giles in the Fields was published in 1720, when John Strype issued his greatly expanded edition of John Stow's Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster. Stow had first surveyed London in 1598; Strype brought the work up to date more than a century later, adding a series of engraved parish maps of which this is one. The St Giles sheet shows a district in transition open fields within living memory, but by 1720