Map of the Thames (and riverside taverns)

The River Tems semi-navigable Mappe rapidly displaying (most of) the taverns along said river

Hand drawn map of the Thames – that’s the full title anyway. I left off the shit pubs basically. There aren’t many thankfully.

The mighty River Thames. The name is ancient, Sanskrit meaning dark river. I’ll come back to that.

This map was a gift and I didn’t have time to scan it, hence the curly cornered photo.

The map is to scale (more or less). This is represented by the London brick, which is one nautical mile.

London psychogeographical references in the map are too numerous to mention – how many do you know? Notable ones are the Northern Line which turns into a dragon as it approaches Mordern. The River Mole erupts from the ground at it’s source. The compass is marked Never Eat Shredded Wheat, which is how I learned North, East, South, West as a child.

One thing that really struck me when making this map, is how big Richmond Park is. I’ve marked Hyde Park on the map, which isn’t really a feature of it at all, just to show the size difference. Richmond Park is MASSIVE. It’s approximately the equivalent area to Wandsworth, Battersea, Elephant & Castle, Borough and up to Millbank and up to London Bridge.