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Coordinate converter. Convert British National Grid (BNG) formerly known as the National Grid Reference (NGR) to latitude and longitude (lat/long WGS84) or vice versa. See The National Grid FAQs for an explanation of how the BNG works. This coordinate converter uses the Oracle Spatial 10g coordinate transformations using approved (recommended) EPSG codes for BNG, WGS84 and ETRS89, which are 27700, 4326 and 4258 respectively. Technical details . Convert BNG to lat/long Enter a British National Grid six figure number for both easting and northing to return decimal latitude and longitude. For example, 429157, 623009 will return -1.54, 55.5 WGS84 (SRID 4326) Convert lat/long to BNG Enter decimal latitude and longitude to return a six figure number for both easting and northing of the British National Grid.

Home | LOCATING LONDON'S PAST. Mapping the Republic of Letters. Click image above to launch the correspondence visualization tool. For links to letters at Electronic Enlightenment, hold the SHIFT Key and drag your cursor over a vector. Paper: Visualizing the Republic of Letters, 2009 Historians and other humanities scholars are increasingly seeking to develop and use visualization tools, methods, and theories for making sense of patterns in large sets of heterogeneous historical data with multiple dimensions. For example, the Electronic Enlightenment database of over 55,000 letters and documents exchanged between 6,400 correspondents in the Republic of Letters presents a typical challenge confronting the emerging field of digital humanities. How can humanities scholars trained in close reading of individual documents make sense of patterns in large sets of data? This visualization won the North American Cartographic Information Society 2009 Student Webmapping Competition prize in the interactive map category.

London Borough of Islington. The London Borough of Islington Etymology[edit] Islington was originally named by the Saxons Giseldone (1005), then Gislandune (1062). The name means 'Gīsla's hill' from the Old English personal name Gīsla and dun 'hill', 'down'. The name then later mutated to Isledon, which remained in use well into the 17th century when the modern form arose.[2] In medieval times, Islington was just one of many small manors in the area, along with Bernersbury, Neweton Berewe or Hey-bury, and Canonesbury (Barnsbury, Highbury and Canonbury - names first recorded in the 13th and 14th centuries). "Islington" came to be applied as the name for the parish covering these villages, and was the name chosen for the Metropolitan Borough of Islington, on its formation in 1899. On the merger with Finsbury, to form the modern borough this name came to be applied to the whole borough.

Districts of Islington[edit] The borough includes the areas: Wards[edit] Government and infrastructure[edit] Economy[edit] Transport[edit] Islington District through time | Boundaries of District/Unitary Authority. London and Environs Maps and Views. London and Environs Maps and Views There are currently 73 high quality London maps and views displayed on this site. "Sir, when a man is tired of London he is tired of life: for there is in London all that life can afford. " Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Upcoming London Maps To aid students, historians, and genealogists tracing their ancestry, some of the following London and English county maps will be selected for display in coming months: c1517 ~ London, Westminster And Southwark As In The Olden Times Shewing The City And Its Suburbs With The Churches, Monasteries, And All The Important Buildings As They Stood In The Reign Of Henry VIII Before The Reformation.

For More Free London Maps Visit Committed To Displaying Free High Quality 16th To 19th Century London Maps & Views. London Street name changes. Without change, London would not be the wonderful and dynamic place it is and has always been. Wars, Fires, Railways and slum clearances have all caused Road layouts to change. The huge redevelopments on the Isle of Dogs and at the 2012 Olympic site in Stratford are just two of the most recent examples. Add to this the Victorian passion for regulating and bringing order by renaming streets and it becomes very difficult to trace an exact location in the past. The street renaming scheme* was started in 1857 by the Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW), encouraged by the General Post Office, after the MBW was given control by the Metropolis Local Management Act of 1855 and Postal Districts were introduced in 1856.

It carried on after the London County Council (L.C.C.) was formed to replace the, allegedly corrupt, MBW. The final changes occurred in a 'big push' between 1936-1939. There are two lists here. For help with finding Postal District Numbers and Area Names see this page. London Old Maps. Sources > Secondary texts > London, Survey of. Survey of London: volume 1Bromley-by-Bow C. R. Ashbee (editor) (1900) Describes the parish of Bromley, including the church of St. Mary, the manor houses, and the Old Palace of Bromley. The Introduction gives a detailed account of the circumstances in which the Survey was founded.

Survey of London: volume 2Chelsea, pt I Walter H. Survey of London: volume 3St Giles-in-the-Fields, pt I: Lincoln's Inn Fields W. Survey of London: volume 4Chelsea, pt II Walter H. Survey of London: volume 5St Giles-in-the-Fields, pt II W. Survey of London: volume 6Hammersmith James Bird and Philip Norman (general editors) (1915) Covers the historic parish of Hammersmith, including the parish church of St. Survey of London: volume 7Chelsea, part III: The Old Church Walter H. Survey of London: volume 8Shoreditch Sir James Bird (editor) (1922) Covers the parish of St. Survey of London: volume 9The parish of St Helen, Bishopsgate, part I Minnie Reddan and Alfred W. Survey of London: volume 10St. Montague H. Walter H. G. Bibliography - Bibliography: London and its Hinterlands - Central Criminal Court. History of canals in London.

On these pages you will find brief histories of London's key man-made waterways, and a short overview of the history of UK canals. There is a page about James Morgan, the Engineer of the Regent's Canal. London Canal Museum is a regional museum specialising in the waterways of the London area, but not including the River Thames. This website also features a collection of our oral history recordings that may be listened to online or downloaded for listening on a portable player. The oral history recordings are in the collection section of the website. You will also find a major reference work depicting the history of the waterways of England and Wales, in maps, over two centuries to 1950, using 231 pages of maps, with some historical notes.

Old London Maps.