Bethnal Green & Bow 1870

Detailed map of Bethnal Green; London sheet 52. Introduction by Isobel Watson. Covers the area in great detail, showing individual houses. Coverage stretches from Cambridge Road eastward to Fairfield Road, and from Morpeth Road southward to Cephas Street. The eastern part of Bethnal Green is covered, and the map also includes Globe Town, part of the Mile End Road, Old Ford and the western part of Bow. Features include the southern part of Victoria Park, Hertford Union Canal, Waterloo House (earlier referred to as Workhouse), Bethnal Green Museum, Bethnal House, Coborn Road station, Meath Gardens, People's Palace, Regent's Canal, City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Bow Institution, Guardians Institution, Bow Road station, Old Ford Coal and Goods station, Globe Bridge, Tower Hamlets Cemetery, tramways, Bancrofts Hospital, City of London Union Workhouse, Tredegar Square and much more. We include various street directory extracts on the reverse.

Reduced from the original Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map to a scale of approximately 1:4,340 (or about 15" to the mile). Published by Alan Godfrey Maps, Leadgate, Consett