Marius Comper · A London atlas
Find what is near you, or follow the river through the city. Buried rivers, lost stations, pubs, blue plaques and the view from your street: every point opens a project you can explore.
River and green space
Tides, bridges and fairs on the ice. Follow the Thames from Westminster towards the barrier, then open the project behind a place.
The old city
The 1666 fire, coffee houses and markets. The places have present-day addresses; the projects retain their old maps, images and records.
Under your feet
A buried river, the clay around the tunnels and a hippo found by Trafalgar Square. Choose a point to see what the evidence says about that place.
Getting around
Stations that opened, moved or closed, names that remain on the map and the rhythm of today’s journeys. Follow the network and open a station.
Out and about
A pub, a plaque on a house, a tower with bells. Enter your postcode to find the projects about places around you.
Reading London
Street names, postcodes, the meridian and sunset. Each project offers another way to find your bearings in London.
River and green space
Zoom out: rivers, stations and the projects’ places continue through London’s boroughs and beyond the city boundary.
Explore the map
Enter a postcode or choose a place. The map shows the nearest places from each project, with a direct link to the full story.
Straight-line distances to the nearest mapped place in each project, not walking routes.
These works cover a wider area. Their map reference is not assigned a distance from your postcode.
47 projects
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Open a project to explore its complete map, evidence and story.
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The English edition uses Britain, including London, as one point of entry. This is a reference for the empire-wide map, not a local-distance result.
Pick two stations and see how full the train is on your journey, at every quarter-hour of the week.
The atlas maps 15 Defra AURN stations in Greater London, not the full UK network. The Bonfire Night analysis has a 5 November record for at least one year at 10 of the 15 London stations.
Follow the Santander Cycles moved between docks without anyone hiring them, and look up your dock.
Choose a London council and compare companies formed with those still on the register. Counts are grouped by registered-office area.
Choose a London council to see how many pupils have Romanian as their first language, 2012 to 2023, and where Romanian ranks there.
Compare rainfall measured at London’s weather stations.
Find pubs and compare the meeting places across London’s neighbourhoods.
Find the people and buildings commemorated on London’s blue plaques.
Compare ground level with the Thames and follow the barrier’s closures.
Look up your bus route: the scheduled wait, the real wait, and where its buses are right now.
Choose London and whether you rent or own to follow the project’s London legal scenario.
Look up a street and explore its social classification on Charles Booth’s historic map.
Trace the colours of post boxes, phone boxes, buses and the Underground roundel.
Discover the fossils that reveal London before the city.
Try adjusting the clock by changing the weight on its pendulum.
Explore the bells, churches and places where you can hear them.
Follow changes in passenger activity at London’s stations.
Explore the machinery that raises the bridge for passing vessels.
Discover the hired coaches and the rules that shaped their trade.
Test the waterlily leaf that inspired Joseph Paxton and discover its connection to the palace.
Step into the coffee houses where people exchanged news, traded and held auctions.
Explore the 1858 crisis and the pressure to transform London’s sewers.
Follow the network that transformed London’s wastewater system.
Follow the fair’s history and the decisions that brought it to an end.
Try the market traders’ cries and compare their language with the historical record.
Discover the neighbourhood, workshops and traces of the silk trade.
Compare the Greenwich line with the meridian used by modern positioning systems.
Follow the buried river and the places that still carry its name.
Explore today’s stations and the traces of those that left the network.
Discover the names and histories of the 32 boroughs and the City of London.
Explore the frost fairs and the images that survive from them.
Explore the case map and John Snow’s investigation in Soho.
Find the Steelyard, the German merchants’ London base, and follow the trade routes.
Discover the city through the eyes of a Persian visitor in the nineteenth century.
Explore how heat from the Underground accumulates in the clay around its tunnels.
Discover what street names reveal about the goods and trades once found here.
Compare Hogarth’s images and the laws that tried to curb gin drinking.
Compare the area where St Mary-le-Bow’s bells can be heard and explore what it means for the Cockney tradition.
Reading the map
Circles mark places described in the linked projects. Diamonds mark a reference for a wider area. Several points may open the same project. A popup identifies approximate positions; each project explains its own evidence, dates and coverage.
The atlas includes the public catalogue’s London collection, across all subjects. Some projects extend beyond Greater London, including the Hanseatic trade route via the Steelyard. The selection is checked against the catalogue when it is updated.
Straight-line distances to the nearest mapped place in each project, not walking routes. These works cover a wider area. Their map reference is not assigned a distance from your postcode.
Postcode centres and mapped places. Your postcode is not shared with a geocoding service. Ground heights are shown ×6. The central LiDAR surface includes buildings and trees, surveyed in 2016–22; gaps are left empty.
Selection updated: 10 November 2026. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Postcodes: OS Code-Point Open, © Crown copyright and database rights, OS OpenData licence. Terrain: Environment Agency LiDAR, Open Government Licence. Map licence.
