The Map of Early Modern London

maps the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century London (1560-1640). Taking the "Agas" map as its platform, the project links encyclopedia-style articles, scholarly work, student work, editions, and literary texts to the places mentioned therein. Students will view the landmarks of Shakespeare's London, and learn about the history and culture of the city in which he lived and worked. Teachers will find the map and index useful in teaching Renaissance plays and other texts set in London. Scholars are welcome to contribute articles, links, or compilations of data.

Click on the Map to begin your journey or go to the Index to search for sites, streets, churches, wards, neighbourhoods, people, and livery companies. The Index also links to a concordance that allows you to browse references to early modern London in contemporary plays.

Announcement: Back by popular demand! We've re-activated all the links to the experimental google-style zoom-able layered map, which offers much better resolution than the grid map. We are slowly importing the data from the grid map to the layered map. Please check all site identifications on the grid map. 13 May 2011

-- Dr. Janelle Jenstad (General Editor). This page last updated: 13 May 2011. We add new pages and update existing pages throughout the site several times a week.

© The Agas map is used on this website by kind permission of the London Metropolitan Archives, Corporation of the City of London. Copyright law prohibits further reproduction of these images in any form under any circumstances. More Information.