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1885 Hex Map of London
- mbo 4y agoThis immediately reminded me of After The Flood's "London Squared" D3 module for creation of various types of cartogram visualisations of London: http://tools.aftertheflood.com/londonsquared/ http://tools.aftertheflood.com/londonsquared/
- robga 4y agoPotentially more informative https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2013/hexagonal-map-of-london/ https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2013/hexagonal-map-of-london/ Book PDF https://access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv3c0c937d https://access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv3c0c937d
- pimlottc 4y agoThank you, this is much more interesting with the historical context, I had thought this was a modern creation.
- simonh 4y agoPerfect for D&D wilderness exploration. Which monsters or adventures do you thing are most appropriate for each borough?
- rob74 4y agoIn the City, probably bulls and bears?
- simonh 4y agoLike it. I was thinking Vampires, but maybe put them in Westminster?
- orthoxerox 4y agoThat's Lizardmen
- BerislavLopac 4y agoYou're fine if you avoid number 5.
- simonh 4y agoEspecially if your name is Marlowe.
- poooogles 4y agoI wonder why they defined the centre as St Paul's rather than Charring Cross? Very unusual. I don't think I've ever seen that anywhere else.
- rob74 4y agoNot a Londoner, but the City of London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London) is the traditional center (or centre) of London, and St. Paul's is the main church in the City.
- BerislavLopac 4y agoNot actually. As the GP said, Charing Cross (actually its old position at the present Trafalgar Square) is considered the centre of London, and all the distances are measured from there. Despite its name, the City of London is only one of the towns and villages comprising what we traditionally think of as "London". Fun fact: Officially, there is no such place as "London". ;)
- simonh 4y agoSo they say, but nobody in the City thinks these things. My candidate for the true centre is the London Stone, legendarily set in place by King Lud himself when founding the city and whom it is named after. It's located at 111 Cannon Street, across the road from Cannon Street station.
- OJFord 4y ago> So they say, but nobody in the City thinks these things. No Londoner would write 'the City' to mean anything other than 'the City of London' (i.e. excluding the rest of the 'city') - which makes it unclear to me how to read your comment, especially given other familiarity/information. Are you saying 'nobody' (I'm not being pedantic on that, hence quotes) living/working in the City sees it as anything other than another borough? (But implicitly others do?)
- OJFord 4y agoIt's interesting to see some of them are probably not the places that would be mapped now, e.g. Old Ford would surely be replaced by Bow or Stratford today, in terms of labelling a rough area; I imagine that's probably due to the declined prominence/use of the canals & wharves.
- idk1 4y agoYeah, I'm from Tottenham (at the top) and you wouldn't really refer to Stamford Hill as an area unless you were being specific or the station. It would be called Stoke Newington (Stokie) if you were just chatting about that general area.
- yreg 4y agoCould be a custom Settlers of Catan map
- IIAOPSW 4y agoOnce again proving which agons are the bestagons.