London Libraries have an astonishing variety of atlases in their reference sections. The reservation system allows
you to pay fifty pence to reserve a book - six weeks later they send you a postcard telling you they have borrowed
it from the library two miles down the road. It would have been easier to go there to read it, if only you had
known it was there.
I will not visit libraries specially to make this list, but I love atlases so whenever I am in a library I check
out their atlas shelf. This list will therefore grow slowly and non-systematically. Road atlases of New Zealand,
The Times Comprehensive World Atlas etc are not included because they can be found in nearly every large library.
All information here should be considered to be incomplete and out of date, and telephoning the libraries concerned
might save you a journey. Libraries included so far are Barking, East Ham, Enfield, Harrow, Ilford, Kensington,
Kingston, Lewisham, Paddington, Romford, Walthamstow Central, Uxbridge. My favourites are in bold italics.
London and South East England
Tidal Thames (Environment Agency) - Kingston
Atlas of London - Romford, Lewisham
Time On Our Side? (London Archaeology) - Romford
Water, Tram & Rail Atlas: Volume 8, London & South East - Enfield
Early Maps of London 1553 to 1667 - Ilford, Lewisham
Charles Booth's Descriptive Map of London Poverty (1889: 1984 reprint) - Romford
Roque's Map and Plan of London 1746 - Romford
Times London History Atlas - Walthamstow Central
A Collection of Early Maps of London 1553 to 1667 - Romford
Britain and Ireland
European Railway Atlas (British Isles volume) - Walthamstow Central
Domesday England (H.C. Darby, 7 volumes) - Enfield
Atlas of Roman Britain - Enfield
Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England - Enfield
Ordnance Survey Road Atlas of Ireland - Harrow
Linguistic Atlas of England (Ortan, Sanderson, Widdowson) - Ilford
Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval England (4 volumes) - Ilford
National Trust Atlas - Walthamstow Central
The Atlas of Britain and Northern Ireland (Clarendon 1963) - Ilford
Ogilby's Road Maps of England & Wales (1675) - Uxbridge
Old Series Ordnance Survey (vols 1 to 8) - Harrow
Atlas of the Seas around the British Isles - Harrow
English Civil War Atlas - Enfield
John Speed's England (vols 1 to 4) - Harrow
(The Atlas of) Historic Towns (vols 1 and 2) - Harrow
Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers - Romford
Early Maps of the British Isles - Romford
The Royal English Atlas (18th century England and Wales) - Romford
Historical Atlas of Scotland circa AD400 to AD1600 - Enfield
Africa, Middle East, Turkey, Bible, Romans, Greeks and Jews
Historical Atlas of Africa (Ajayi & Crowder) - Ilford, East Ham, Barking, Kingston, Kensington, Lewisham
Atlas of African History (Fage) - East Ham
Atlas of African History (McEvedy) - Enfield
Atlas Jeune Afrique - Kensington
Cambridge Atlas of the Middle East & North Africa - Ilford, East Ham, Kensington
Atlas of Uganda 1962 - Romford
Atlas of Mesopotamia - Romford, Wimbledon
Times Atlas of the Bible - Kingston, Kensington, Enfield, Lewisham
Atlas of Israel - Ilford
Atlas of the Jewish World - East Ham
Jewish History Atlas - Enfield
Geocart Road Atlas of Turkey - Walthamstow Central
Atlas of the Greek World (Levi) - Kingston
Atlas of the Classical World - Wimbledon
Atlas of Classical History - Enfield
Australia and NZ
New Zealand Atlas (Ian Wards) - Kensington
China
Contemporary Atlas Of China - Walthamstow Central, Kingston
Times Atlas of China - Harrow, East Ham, Romford, Kensington, Lewisham
Rand McNally Atlas of China (1990) - Paddington
National atlas of China (5 volumes) - Romford
Europe and Russia
Berlin Public Transport Atlas 95/96 - this volume of maps and timetables is in Walthamstow Central
Times Atlas of European History - Walthamstow Central
Soviet History Atlas - Enfield
Atlas Der Republik Österreich (atlas of Austria) - Romford
Atlas of Finland (1960, with seperate volume of notes in English) - Romford
Atlas of Denmark 1961 - Romford
Geocart Atlas of Russia - Walthamstow Central
Geocart Road Atlas of Poland - Walthamstow Central
Atlas of European Birds - Ilford
Economist Atlas of the New Europe - Kensington
European Railway Atlas (France/Benelux volume) - Walthamstow Central
India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Historical Atlas of South Asia (Schwartzberg) - Ilford, Lewisham
An Atlas of India (Oxford University Press) - Ilford, East Ham
A Social and Economic Atlas of India (Oxford) - Kensington
Japan
1:250000 Road Atlas of Japan (Shobunsha) - this uniquely designed atlas is in The Japan Centre in Piccadilly.
Technically a shop rather than a library, but the atlas section is out of view and so a long browse is easy
