Laurie’s large and detailed plan of London
By LAURIE, Richard Holmes, 1823
Laurie’s New Plan of London and Its Environs Comprising the New Buildings and Recent Improvements. Being an Original Survey by John Outhett. 1823,4.
- Author: LAURIE, Richard Holmes
- Publication place: London
- Publisher: Published by Richard Holmes Laurie, Chart-seller to the Admiralty, &c.&c., No.53, Fleet Street, Improved Edition
- Publication date: 1823–1824.
- Physical description: Engraved map, original hand-colour in outline, dissected and mounted on new linen.
- Dimensions: 660 by 830mm (26 by 32.75 inches).
- Inventory reference: 2456
Laurie is at pains to show that the map was based upon a new survey by John Outhett, who as the note beneath the title explains based the map upon the trigonometric survey by General Roy — the man behind the Ordnance Survey — augmented “with a new series of 52 stations on elevated situations from which the positions of upwards of 450 steeples, domes, turrets, vanes, and other conspicuous objects within the limits of the plan, have been determined by means of more than 5000 angles”.