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Here's the direct links to the digital maps:

https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays/medieval-london-...

https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays/tudor-map-1520

You have to click the checkbox "Use this overlay" to view them.

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Looking at the Tudor map, one thing that really stands out is how many abbeys and monasteries there were (shown in pink), and how much of London was taken up by them.

Those abbeys and monasteries would've (as part of their endowments) owned large chunks of the agricultural land outside the city as well. I wonder what a modern map, showing all land parcels owned or controlled by an entity with a City address, might look like?

Fun fact: Trinity College of the University of Cambridge has a 999-year lease on the land that the O2 Arena sits on [1][2].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/may/29/oxford-and...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/oct/09/trinity-col...

Not entirely the same but related: https://whoownsengland.org/2017/04/17/the-thirty-landowners-...

Yes, not surprising that Henry VIII found the idea of dissolving them and taking all their stuff so attractive :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries

Well at the time you were looked at differently if you didn't show up at the mass. For a comparable neighborhood size they were much more easily filled at the time they are currently.

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