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Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet D2 - St Paul's Cathedral, Blackfriars, Fleet Street, Temple, Bankside scholarly Renaissance geography and its 1886 map ofSheet D2 of John Rocque's 1746 survey of London sits along the working edge of the City, where the built up streets north of the Thames give way to wharves, stairs and the south bank opposite, and it forms a natural companion to the store's other sheets from the same twenty four part survey without covering the same ground twice. Rocque, working with the engraver John Pine, surveyed the whole of London, Westminster and Southwark between 1741 and 1745,