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Nov 20Liked by Londonist, Matt Brown

Absolutely beautiful! Love all the commentary too. The Duke of Bedford’s path going north from Southampton Row crossed the Euston Road (not yet built in Rocque’s time) and onto his holding of fields next to Hampstead Road just south of the Mornington Crescent area

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Thanks Scott. Nice detail.

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Nov 20Liked by Londonist, Matt Brown

Fascinating as always. I hope the finished work does get exhibited, your efforts surely merit it. This area is of particular interest to me, as I went to the LSE just south of Lincoln's Inn Fields & had a tumour removed in the National Neurological Hospital on Queen's Square forty years later.

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Thanks Jon. That hospital is world class. My wife works in neurology, and it's very highly regarded.

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This is completely brilliant. I love a map and very detailed ones of London are very heaven.

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Its always wonderful to see new sections of your maps and this one has more than just historial meaning in the grand sense for you, but personal historical meaning as well. There are thousands and thousands of wonderful places but it always means more to one when you have memories in that place that are significant. I remember in England walking along Hadrian's wall ( part in Gloucestershire ) and getting locked out of our car ( with several other people we were giving a ride back from Bournemouth to) at the Royal Arch in Bath where the Watford's had us in for a bit and gave us Coca cola in crystal glasses.

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Wonderful! I spent many lunchtimes eating my sandwiches in St George's burial grounds (when I wasn't in the Lamb pub), while working in Tavistock Square. It contains a tomb to Oliver Cromwell's (grand?)daughter Anna, if I remember correctly.

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Yes, that's right I think. It's such a special place, isn't it?

Oh, I've had so many wonderful evenings in the Lamb. I remember, years and years ago when the main Londonist site was new, I got a group of other London bloggers and writers together in the Lamb to propose we join forces. We called ourselves the London Alternative Media Barons (LAMB) in deference to our meetup spot. (Nothing ever came of it, mind.)

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Excellent. My posse from the BMJ was the Bloomsbury RAW (Real Ale Women). The LAMB RAW would have been quite something.

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Fascinating stuff, thank you.

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This is awesome.

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Nov 20·edited Nov 20Liked by Matt Brown

Cows make their own pathways through fields; perhaps this is what's shown on the "over shaded path" although why that would be important I have no idea.

Edit-Looking at the paths again in the coloured map, they look more like short cuts.

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Yeah, it's possible they're common routes for herded livestock, but given the places they connect, it looks more like desire lines (short cuts).

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Nov 20Liked by Matt Brown

One of the things we used to be taught about in the Civil War period was the Barebones Parliament of 1653, named after the City of London representative Praise-God Barebones - all appointed by Cromwell, none of this wussy democracy stuff, and really of no interest to anyone except historians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praise-God_Barebone

Anyway - father of Nicholas Barbon.

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