Historic London maps go online
Maps and property records from North London in 1910 have been published online for the first time as thegenealogist.co.uk released the second phase of its ‘Lloyd George Domesday Survey’ record collection.
The 1910–1915 Land Valuation Survey, or ‘Domesday Survey’, was a record of the owner, occupier and value of every property in the country, ordered by David Lloyd George, then the chancellor, as part of a plan to raise taxes on land in order to fund the ‘People’s Budget’.
The surviving collection of more than 94,500 field books, each with hundreds of pages, is held in The National Archives series IR58, and is being digitised by TheGenealogist. Each release is accompanied by the associated large-scale IR121 annotated Ordnance Survey maps.
The latest set consists of the books for Barnet, Edgware, Finchley, Friern Barnet, Hendon and Totteridge, just to the south of Hertfordshire, following the City of London and Paddington books in November 2017.
Mark Bayley, head of development at TheGenealogist, said: “The maps show an incredible amount of detail, allowing you to zoom right in on the handannotated property. The records that go with these maps are just as detailed, allowing you to find out all manner of information about your ancestral home.”
The maps are especially valuable for family historians because much of Britain has changed dramatically in the past century due to the Blitz and new developments, so it can be hard to find an ancestor’s house on modern maps.