London Streetfinder (Small)

by Robert Nicholson Publications

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0948576286
• ISBN13: 9780948576287
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Nicolson Maps
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Can you get there from here?

The Nicholson London Streetfinder is one of the standards for maps for navigating London. My first streetfinder dates from 1980; it a book that is constantly updated, just as the streets and construction in London continue to be developed and changed. London is a city of paradox in many ways -- long established patterns (in some cases, 2000 years old) mixed in with very recent routing changes and developments. This is not a history book, it is not a story book; in fact, there's practically no narrative at all, save for map guidelines and keys. At the beginning of the book is a two-page spread overlaying the page numbers with the basic grid map of Greater London. The pages run from Enfield and Barnet in the north to Sutton and South Croydon in the south; from Harrow and Hounslow in the west to Romford and Dartford in the east. There are over 150 pages of maps, sequenced west to east, north to south. Each page has the grid markings for the attached pages to help guide direction through the book.The central part of London, including the districts of Kensington, Chelsea, Westminster, Lambeth, Southwark, Finsbury, Holborn, Regents Park, Paddington, Notting Hill -- these have expanded pages, to allow for more detail. By far the majority of tourists who come to see London come to see this part of London, so there is more detail in markings for that purpose; also, being the oldest part of London (including the City of London), it has the most development overall.The Nicholson guide also has a section from the London Information Service, including information on busses day and night, the underground, various transport services and conenctions, telephone and emergency information, embassies, hotel services, and maps highlighting shopping, theatres, and museums and monuments. The last hundred pages or so has an alphabetical listing of all the streets of London with grid keys to find the streets within the map pages.London never had a central planning structure that made streets logically consistent; different boroughs developed on their own, and within these, individual developers and landowners were often in history given free reign for street design and construction, making London a remarkable maze of twisty, turning streets, streets that have several different names, streets and paths of differing standards even to this day.