Joel Gascoyne's Spitalfields
Detail from Joel Gascoyne's map of the Parish of St Dunstan Stepney, 1703, showing the Spitalfields area and surroundings. The arrow indicates Spitalfields Market. The challenge was to map a highly built up area using the surveying tools and methods of the era.
- Date
- 1703
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Joel Gascoyne (c.1650-1704)
- Place
- London
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 2,040 × 2,806 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-70-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Joel Gascoyne's Spitalfields" (1703). Joel Gascoyne (c.1650-1704), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joel_Gascoyne%27s_Spitalfields.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 291613.
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