Do yous know how many roads at that spot are inwards the City of London?
None - at that spot are no roads inwards the City of London.
The argue at that spot are no roads inwards the City of London is because all those streets paved alongside golden were named a long fourth dimension earlier the give-and-take 'road' came into role virtually 250 years ago.
If yous don't believe me together with then yous tin rank the sack search this 1682 map of London for whatever streets alongside a 'road' place-name. The London Time Machine is an interactive version of William Morgan's map of London. If yous explore the map yous volition uncovering lots of streets, lanes, alleys together with yards. You won't uncovering whatever roads.
William Morgan's map was the get-go properly surveyed map of the metropolis released later on the 1666 Fire of London. After the Fire of London the metropolis had to endure rebuilt together with this novel metropolis needed a novel map. The survey for the map took vi years to complete. The finished map was made upwardly of sixteen copper engravings together with is 8 feet past times 5 feet inwards size. Along the bottom of the map is a panoramic persuasion of the metropolis created past times Robert Morden together with Phillip Lee. The panorama shows a persuasion of the metropolis equally seen from S of the River Thames.
Luckily for map fans William Morgan's map was featured inwards the BBC's dandy The Beauty of Maps series.
