Locating addresses in old maps

[Gardengirl]

Hi everyone,

I'm just embarking on researching some of the places that my ancestors lived, having accumulated many addresses from census returns and other documents over the years. Some of these are easily found with just a simple internet search but some are street names and roads that no longer exist.

I know that there are lots of places to view old maps on line but I wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction to locate a specific address in an old map. For example, this address crops up a lot in my tree but I have not been able to find it on a map.

6, Church Terrace, Battersea, London, England

How / where should I go to find it?

[bcbrit]

Hi there,

Have you tried Booth's Poverty maps? www.booth.lse.ac.uk

alangodfreymaps.co.uk

archi.uk.com

London got pretty beat up in WW2, so a lot of roads disappeared. In the road where I grew up there were about six houses called the Terraces, but their address was the name of the road.

[Gardengirl]

Thanks for the suggestions.

Is the Booths map searchable? Nothing came up when I put the road name in.

The other two don't seem to be searchable either - alangodfrey is just maps for sale as far as I could see and the archi.uk.com didn't bring up anything at all.

[cbcarolyn]

not looked at these in a while, was pointed in the direction of these they are not just scotland. You can view maps side by side.

https://maps.nls.uk/

if you have census you could start with nearby roads that are in existence

[Gardengirl]

Thanks, Carolyn, that’s the one I have been trying to use but haven’t managed to find Church Terrace yet. So that is what prompted me to ask here is anyone knew a good way to locate old streets.

[Katarzyna]

Church Terrace Battersea.jpg

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.2&lat=51.47232&lon=-0.14987&layers=168&b=1

This is the nearest I can get. "Queenstown Road Station was opened on 1 November 1877 by the London and South Western Railway. It was first known as Queen's Road (Battersea)."

Edit: If you follow the road north it leads to Chelsea bridge.

[Katarzyna]

Booths Maps -

https://booth.lse.ac.uk/map/16/-0.1512/51.4700/100/0?marker=528543,177793

You can browse his Police notebooks by East or West Battersea. You can possibly find Church Terrace by walking Queen's Road.
His notebooks have some great descriptions of the places and people living there

[Gardengirl]

That’s great, Kat! Can you tell me where and how you did the search to get those addresses with Queens Road? I have never seen that added in the records I have looked at so far. It looks like a FMP result so if you could give me the link as well that would really help me.

I can delve deeper into the Booth’s notebooks too, now that I know where to start looking.

[Katarzyna]

All London, England, City Directories, 1736-1943 results for Church Terrace

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/co...idence_x=0-0-0

[ozgirl]

I found this which mentions Church Terrace, At the bottom of page 15 it says it was later nos. 131-149 Queenstown Road. Looking on Google maps it appears to be the white building directly opposite St Marys Church, on the corner with Prairie Street.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/sites/bartlett/files/50.05_park_town.pdf

Also according to the above report, during WWII bombs demolished half of the building, and the space that it occupied is now a park.


In the map link that Katarzyna provided in #6, the outline of the building is opposite St Philips Church on Queen's Road.

[ozgirl]

Actually if you look at the building on Google maps, on the other side of the park is what would have been the end of the original terrace building as it matches with the start of the terrace on the corner. So obviously when the middle of the building was destroyed they just patched up the exposed walls and left it like that.

[Gardengirl]

Thank you all, that’s very helpful. I will do some more investigating tomorrow.

[Xenofex2]

In addition to the other suggestions, I would look again at the actual Census Return. Then backtrack through the return and look for the opening pages of that particular Enumerators District. That way you can see what addresses the Enumerator covered, and by focusing on them, that should help you pinpoint the actual whereabouts of Church Terrace.

Another idea is that with The Genealogist website you can not only search for an address in a Census but it also has a very good Map Explorer, that also pinpoints house numbers. I did look and without any checking for accuracy, seems to point us towards Church Terrace being off Kingsley Street.

If you have difficulty finding, I would also look for information on

https://www.maps.thehunthouse.com/St...et_Names.htm#C

that lists London Street name changes, Old to New/New to Old, 1857-1929, and also checkout the epub books the site has that includes one on a list of ‘London Streets Lost to the Blitz’.

[Gardengirl]

Thank you very much. Lots to work on there