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14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?

I adore maps. And I use maps. Lots and lots of maps. I have a whole bookmark file filled with maps of London in particular from 1600 onwards.

Here’s where David and Jonathan lived in Transgressions. I like to think they lived on the Gaydon Road to the north.

Here’s a few of my favourites that I use a lot.

Map of London in 1818 – utterly invaluable for the Regency. It’s HUGELY detailed and although it might take a little while to load it’s so worth it. What I really don’t understand is why the UCLA School of Public Health are doing hosting it, because unless you know where it is, you can’t find it from their front page. Hope to hell it never goes down.

16th & 17th Century London – used this one for Transgressions when David and Tobias were there

The first UK road map? dated 1675 it maps London to Land’s End in a very logical manner

The Poverty Map of London – shows you where the following could be found:

Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal.

Very poor, casual. Chronic want.

Poor. 18s. to 21s. a week for a moderate family

Mixed. Some comfortable others poor

Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings.

Middle class. Well-to-do.

Upper-middle and Upper classes. Wealthy.

Links to more map porn.

I also use Multimap a LOT, for distances and directions, and I slather over Google Earth a great deal.