Stanford’s Map of the County of London According to the Local Government Act 1888
This 1888 map, measuring 28 by 39.5 inches, lays out the capital’s administrative divisions as they stood at the moment London first became a unified county. Electoral divisions returning two members to the County Council appear alongside Urban Sanitary District boundaries, all overlaid on a full street plan with parks, common land, and railway lines marked.
Hachures show the topography, with the hills of north and south London clearly rendered. The map’s reach extends north of the Thames between Hammersmith, Hampstead, Stamford Hill, and Poplar, and south between Putney, Streatham, Lower Sydenham, and Eltham, stretching further still in the northeast. One quirk worth knowing: the County of London boundary on this map includes a small detached area in Barnes, the site of what is now the Leg of Mutton Nature Reserve.
This reproduction comes from the Edward Stanford Cartographic Collection archive. Available from paper through framed finishes, with rail options in black or walnut.

