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The history of London, the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, extends over 2000 years. In that time, it has become one of the world's most significant financial and cultural capital cities. It has withstood plague, devastating fire, civil war, aerial bombardment, terrorist attacks, and riots .
Most of the big religious houses in London were founded between c. 1100 and 1250, and City wealth contributed to their upkeep. The population of London reached 80,000 by 1300, but was halved by the Black Death (1348–50). Enforcement of rudimentary hygiene was attempted; animal butchery was banned within the city walls (1369), but the ...
Nov 11, 2022 · Medieval London. During the Middle Ages London was, as it is today, the vibrant, cosmopolitan capital of England. It dwarfed all other English urban centres. In 1377, the year Richard II became king, it had an estimated population of 40,000. The next largest urban centre, York, had only around 12,000.
Following the publication of the Map of Tudor London in 2018, its companion map shows London at the height of the medieval period. The map details London between 1270 and 1300 when its population reached a peak not reached again until the mid 16th century. Covering the same geographical extent as the map of Tudor London and at the same scale (1 ...
Fig. 4 - Map of the city of London around the year 1300, with a marker to show where the cistern was found in Bell Alley, Holborn. Creator William R. Shepherd, digitized by the Perry-Castañeda Library, vectorized by Grandiose for Wikimedia Commons.
Medieval London in around 1300. This map shows the size and layout of medieval London in around 1300.
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Mar 16, 2020 · Our latest project for the Trust is the Map of Medieval London: the City, Westminster & Southwark, 1270 – 1300. 700 years is a very long time ago, and most of us are probably a little hazy about that period in history. To put the map into context, here’s a brief summary of what was happening in England in the late 13th century.
