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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

My boss has just had a copy of the Cruchley’s New Plan of London and it’s Environs (an old map) hung in his office. I noticed that just below the word London at the top of the map is the text “limits of the hills of mortality” just above The New River to the right of Green Lanes, so where Eade Road is now. Anyone know what this means?!

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Looks like Bills Of Mortality

About which I know nothing but there is a Wikipedia article here

Above screenshot taken from this online map site here

Ahhhhhh now that makes more sense, thanks!
Although the hills of mortality does sound much more romantic. There is *very* little life outside zone 2 after all... ;-)

Bills of mortality were the weekly mortality statistics in London, designed to monitor burials from 1592 to 1595 and then continuously from 1603. The responsibility to produce the statistics was chartered in 1611 to the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks. The bills covered an area that started to expand as London grew from the City of London, before reaching its maximum extent in 1636.

Thus what the map is noting is the extent of coverage at the time the map was produced.

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

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