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Looking at the Tudor map, one thing that really stands out is how many abbeys and monasteries there were (shown in pink), and how much of London was taken up by
by mhandley 2y ago
Looking at the Tudor map, one thing that really stands out is how many abbeys and monasteries there were (shown in pink), and how much of London was taken up by them.
- 082349872349872 2y agoThose abbeys and monasteries would've (as part of their endowments) owned large chunks of the agricultural land outside the city as well. I wonder what a modern map, showing all land parcels owned or controlled by an entity with a City address, might look like?
- delta_p_delta_x 2y agoFun fact: Trinity College of the University of Cambridge has a 999-year lease on the land that the O2 Arena sits on [1][2]. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/may/29/oxford-and-cambridge-university-colleges-own-property-worth-35bn https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/may/29/oxford-and... [2]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/oct/09/trinity-college-cambridge-o2-dome https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/oct/09/trinity-col...
- dewey 2y agoNot entirely the same but related: https://whoownsengland.org/2017/04/17/the-thirty-landowners-who-own-half-a-county/ https://whoownsengland.org/2017/04/17/the-thirty-landowners-...
- gilleain 2y agoYes, not surprising that Henry VIII found the idea of dissolving them and taking all their stuff so attractive :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries
- prmoustache 2y agoWell at the time you were looked at differently if you didn't show up at the mass. For a comparable neighborhood size they were much more easily filled at the time they are currently.