Mapping the Tube: 1863-2023
The Map House, a wonderful gallery in Knightsbridge in central London which is itself over 100 years old, has just launched a month-long exhibition specifically
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King’s Cross’ Monster Trail
King’s Cross Central, the area behind King’s Cross and St Pancras stations, has launched a monster trail, which is running up to and including Hallowe’en
Continue reading »Kew Circular Walk
Kew is one of London’s leafy surburban neighbourhoods. Situated on a long curve of the River Thames, ot is of course famous for Kew Gardens,
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This delightful, colourful piece of cartography, is the first map by illustrator, limerick-creator and Walthamstow resident Angry Dan. The piece is a 60cm x 60cm
Continue reading »Walking with the Snowman
We’ve long liked temporary “parade” sculpture trails in London – they make exploring a neighbourhood even more interesting, if around the corner is one of
Continue reading »13 Bridges Challenge
The 13 Bridges Challenge, organised by SSAFA (the Armed Forces charity) is taking place on Saturday 24 June (this Saturday) and participants will be walking
Continue reading »Dinosaurs in London
To celebrate the opening of a Jurassic Park pop-up shop at the Natural History Museum in London this week (the popup is to mark 30
Continue reading »Eating and Drinking on the Regent’s Canal
Following on from the colourful map of curry restaurants along the new Elizabeth line, Mapping London spotted this earlier map in the FT Globetrotter series,
Continue reading »South Bank’s Illuminated Art Trail
As a complement to the Illuminated River map we featured previously, which shows the central London bridges that are lit up with LED-light-based visualisations, South
Continue reading »Festive Fleet Street Quarter
Fleet Street Quarter, a new Business Improvement District set up earlier this year for the western part of the City of London (around Fleet Street,
Continue reading »Indian Restaurants on the Elizabeth Line
The FT published an article called “An Indian restaurant crawl along London’s Elizabeth Line” which came illustrated with this rather nice map that shows the
Continue reading »Illuminated River
The Illuminated River is a long-term LED light installation on a number of bridges spanning the Thames in central London. At 9:30pm each night, various
Continue reading »Cool Spaces
It’s very hot in London today, and tomorrow. It’s best not to be out and about at all, but if you need to be in London, there are some places which may be cooler than others – public venues with air conditioning, some tubes/trains (if…
Continue reading »London Alleyways Map
The new map is the latest in a long line in attractively packaged, specialist maps from Blue Crow Media which highlight the locations of a single feature of London on a bepoke basemap and guide – be it notable trees, Brutalist buildings or in thi…
Continue reading »Diverse London
The fourth book in a series by author/cartographer David Fathers, Diverse London takes forward the three previous books (focusing on rivers and gruesome history) by describing and illustrating 20 guided walks through London’s current and historic…
Continue reading »Animals of London
Dex, profilic creator of typographic maps of London , has published Animals of London, in partnership with the London Wildlife Trust (who receive 20% of the proceeds of sales of the prints). We have always liked typographic maps (ones where the text ma…
Continue reading »TrainTrackr Individual Lines
We featured TrainTracker, a live circuit board map of where the trains are on the London Underground – with lights representing the train locations – back in 2020. Now, the organisation has taken the concept onwards and produced individual …
Continue reading »The Globe Collection
London-based artist and globemaker Julia Forte was featured in one of Mapping London’s earliest posts – way back in 2011 we featured the Map of London Peculiars. More recently the artist has combined maps and globes together – but rat…
Continue reading »Sustainable Shopping at Christmas
Just in time for Christmas, here’s a central London alternative tube map that has been made by ICON Printing, a custom apparel design firm. It highlights shops near the marked stations that have known strong environmental, sustainable and sociall…
Continue reading »London’s Great Railway Stations
London’s railway terminus stations are major landmarks in the inner city – they form a ring around the city’s core are used by many, these days, not just to catch a train, but to meet, shop and walk through. A new book, “London&…
Continue reading »London All-on-One Quickmap
Central London has long been a spatial challenge for tourists and others unfamiliar with it. It’s very big, and most of it isn’t built on an easily understandable grid pattern. Quirks and kinks in streets built back in Roman times, persist …
Continue reading »Postmodern London
From the desk of Blue Crow Media (we’ve featured several of their maps before) comes this new map of London, focusing on Postmodernism in the capital. What do they mean by postmodern? Basically, buildings with a distinctive architecture style fol…
Continue reading »Footways – Central London
Various central London locations are this week, as part of London Car Free Day (which is today!), stocking free copies of a paper map (you can also order a copy online) for walking routes in central London – it’s called Footways, and was fi…
Continue reading »Greenground Map
The London Greenground Map, by designer Helen Ilus (Hi Design), takes its inspiration from the famous tube map to create a network of walking routes, with parks as “stations” in and around the capital. The map was first created a couple of …
Continue reading »Let’s Do London
After nearly a year and a half when much of London has been staying away from its central business district, there’s a big push to get people back into the middle of town. The Mayor of London and Visit London have this week launched Let’s D…
Continue reading »Tusk London Trail
Time to find some painted lions in central London! The Tusk London Trail is a series of life-size fibreglass lions, painted by a variety of artists and comedians including Lee Mack (“Three Shirts on the Lion”) and Noel Fielding, as well as …
Continue reading »Tube Zones
People in London generally know what tube zone they live “in”. There are no defined zones as such, zones are simply classifications assigned to each tube and railway station in, so it is likely people label their “zone” based on…
Continue reading »Cycling and Small Business Guide
Route Plan Roll is the creation of Dermot Hanney – his concept is to marry a map of safe London road cycle routes, with proper infrastructure, with the “tube map” which famously simplifies the London Underground network into straight …
Continue reading »History Map of South Tottenham
We’ve all had plenty of to explore our local areas, over the last year, with several lockdowns and other movement restrictions meaning that our local village, town or part of London is our exercise arena. With this in mind it’s always nice …
Continue reading »Murder Maps
London has a long and gruesome history – indeed part of its tourist industry is focused on tours and attractions based on the “Jack the Ripper” cases, so there was always going to be plenty of London-related content in this new book w…
Continue reading »JUMP Bikeshare Routes
The bright red JUMP bikes are alas gone from the streets of London, following the takeover of Uber’s JUMP micromobility division by rival Lime. They may be back on the streets, maybe painted green, soon. But for now, we can view this amazing data…
Continue reading »Tube Circuit Board with Live Train Locations
Missing travelling on the London Underground? Now, you can see the trains running, live, on this custom-made circuit board showing thetube network. An array of lights, one for each tube and DLR station, uses open data from Transport for London to show …
Continue reading »Great Trees of London
Blue Crow Media, long-time makers of bespoke themed maps of London and other places, have switched from their regular architecture focus and produced a lovely new map focusing on notable trees in the capital. There are around as many trees as people in…
Continue reading »Bloody London
“Bloody London” is a new book by author, illustrator cartographer David Fathers. Previously writing about the Thames Path in London, the Regents’ Canal and London’s “lost rivers“, David has for this book focused on a…
Continue reading »Circle Line Pub Crawl
One of London’s hardest challenge, the Circle Line Pub Crawl, got even harder a few years ago when Transport for London reconfigured the line to have a “tail” extending down to Hammersmith. Now, there are 35 tube stations and correspo…
Continue reading »Secret Rivers
London has a lot more rivers than just the River Thames and River Lea – but many of the rest are either very small and easily overlooked, or buried underground (culverted), typically by industrious Victorians looking to clean up channels that bec…
Continue reading »The Original Beck Map with the Modern Network
This creation by Artur D, a volunteer at the London Transport Museum, is a faithful transplantion of the original c.1933 H.C. “Harry” Beck London tube map, the first to show the network as a diagram with rigid lines and corners – to t…
Continue reading »Christmas Markets
The days may be short, but London comes alive in the month leading up to Christmas, with a number of Christmas Markets popping up at various scenic, tourist friendly locations, to provide a bit of mulled wine, bratwurst and handmade Christmas gifts. Li…
Continue reading »East End Independents – 2019 Edition
Following the original 2017 edition and a 2018 update, The East End Trades Guild have launched a new version of their specially created map of independent retail businesses in the East End of London, many of whom sell unique, locally made gifts ideal f…
Continue reading »The Gilded Desert
Adam Dant, artist, creates art which is often based around a geographical location, using cartography to frame a topic, often drawing out a key road or other structure into a simple geometric shape. This is particularly evident The Gilded Desert, which…
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