Elephant & Castle 1872

Large Scale Plan of Elephant; London sheet 7.95. Reduced from the original 5' to a mile plan. Introduction by Alan Godfrey. This highly detailed map at a 'Yard to the Mile' scale covers the area around and to the north of the Elephant & Castle pub. Coverage stretches north to Borough Road. Features include a stretch of the LCDR railway with Elephant & Castle station, St Matthew's church New Kent Road, Metropolitan Tabernacle, Taylor's Depository, British & Foreign School Society's Training College, Surrey County Gaol and Sessions House (shown in detail), Holy Trinity church at Trinity Square. On the reverse we include street directory entries for Borough Road, London Road, Newington Causeway, New Kent Road, St George's Circus, St Geotrge's Road, Trinity Square,

Reduced from the original Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:1,056 and reproduced at 1:1,760 – the equivalent of 36 inches (or one yard) to a mile. Published by Alan Godfrey Maps, Leadgate, Consett