Ward Plans and Parts of London

8x14 cm

Walk, 2^nd
Crosby Hall.
Drawn and Engraved by I.Greig for the Walks through London.
Published by W. Clarke New Bond Street. Oct 1.1816
Plan of the area from Liverpool Street to Aldgate showing Bishopsgate and Houndsditch with vignette of Crosby Hall, originally a medieval mansion built in 1466 by the wool merchant Sir John Crosby, at the time of this engraving only the Great Hall and Parlour wing of the mansion had survived a fire of 1672. The surviving parts of the Great Hall were moved in 1910 to its present site in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
Published in Walks Through London including Westminster and the Borough of Southwark…forming a complete guide to the Metropolis…by David Hughson, L.L.D.. London, Sherwood Neely & Jones. 1817.
Hand coloured.