1851 Tallis Map of London
1851 was London’s loudest year. The Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park that spring, the Crystal Palace pulled in roughly six million admissions, and the census counted well over two million residents in a capital being reshaped by new railway termini, dock building, and terraces pushing past the old parish edges.
This 1851 Tallis map of London, reissued by Oxford Cartographers, records the extent of the city in exactly that year, printed in colour. John Tallis and Company were among the best known British map publishers of the mid-Victorian era, and the sheet reads as a snapshot: the Thames still the organizing line of a city that had not yet swallowed the villages now inside Greater London.
Finishing options from Map Shop:
- Paper, printed on premium 36lb stock
- Laminated front and back with 1.7mil satin-gloss film
- Mounted to 1/4 inch foam core
- Wood rails or full frame in black or walnut molding

