2024年7月18日 · The Great Fire of London started on Sunday, September 2, 1666. It began in a bakery on Pudding Lane, owned by Thomas Farriner. The exact cause of the fire is not definitively known, but it is believed to have started when a spark from the bakery’s oven ignited nearby flammable materials.. Several factors contributed to the rapid spread of the fire:

A plan of the City of London after the Great Fire, in the year of our Lord 1666, With the model of the new City, according to the Grand Design of Sr. Christopher Wren. London, 1749. Maps Crace Port.17.5. These grand ideas were rejected mainly due to financial constraints and London was rebuilt on a very similar grid as before the fire.

The Mor­gan Map of 1682 was the first to show the whole of the City of Lon­don after the fire. Pro­duced by William Mor­gan and his ded­i­cat­ed team of Sur­vey­ors and Car­tog­ra­phers it took 6 years to pro­duce, and dis­played a brighter per­spec­tive on city life for a pop­u­la­tion still mourn­ing their loved ones, pos ...

The cartographic source for the map was Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg's map of London, which was first published in 1572, making it the very first map of the city available to the collector. To commemorate the Great Fire, a monument designed by Sir Christopher Wren was constructed between 1671 and 1677, and erected on the very spot the fire ...

This map shows London after the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was drawn by Wenceslaus Hollar. It reveals how much of the city was destroyed in the fire. The fire began on early Sunday morning on the 2nd of September. It started in Pudding Lane in the shop of the king’s baker, Thomas Farrinor. Soon London was filled with smoke.

An Experimental 3D visualisation of the historic catastrophe, famously called The Great Fire of London. The areas affected by the fire are depicted on top of Modern day London (2017). Created with public LiDAR Composite DTM 2017 - 50cm and the 1667 Map by John Leake, William Leybourne of the fire.

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2016年9月2日 · By September 5th the fire had destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches and St Paul's Cathedral. The BBC has created an interactive map and the diary entries of Samuel Pepys to recount the four days when London burned. Retrace Samuel Pepys' Steps in the Great Fire of London shows the extent of the fire in red. The orange lines show the ...

The map below shows a modern City of London, with the highlighted section showing the extent of the Great Fire. We have used Wenceslaus Hollar’s famous map of 1666 as our main source. As you can see, the fire destroyed almost everything within the old City limits, leaving only a small portion of the north east unscathed.

2016年9月12日 · The Great Fire’s lasting impact can be seen in the modern-day London, a dynamic metropolis that has evolved through the centuries, embracing change while preserving its rich heritage. The scars of the fire may have long since healed, but the lessons learned continue to shape the city’s ongoing development and growth.