Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet B1 - Oxford Street, Tottenham Court Road, Fitzrovia, Soho, Cavendish Square collectible early world maps By the middle of the

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Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet B1 - Oxford Street, Tottenham Court Road, Fitzrovia, Soho, Cavendish Square collectible early world maps By the middle of theBy the 1740s the fields north of Soho were fast disappearing under new streets and squares, and sheet B1 of Rocque's survey is where that transformation shows most clearly. Positioned in the top row of the twenty four sheet grid, this section covers the developing West End around Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, an area later known as Fitzrovia but still, in Rocque's day, a patchwork of newly laid out squares beside open ground. Cavendish