Search or navigate Charles Booth's poverty map to discover rich or poor areas of late Victorian London and reveal a modern underlay map.

Use Charles Booth’s London to explore the famous poverty maps and search, browse and download the original notebooks from the Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903).

These maps are collectively known as the Map Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9. They use Stanford's Library Map of London and Suburbs at a scale of 6 inches to 1 mile (1:10560) as their base. It is this edition of the map that has been digitised and made accessible on this website.

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Download individual sheets from the printed Map Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9.

One of the most well-known achievements of Charles Booth's Inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People in London was the Maps Descriptive of London Poverty in which the levels of poverty and wealth found by the survey investigators was mapped out street by street.

Four notebooks that give an insight into the work and religious life of the London Jewish community of the 1880s and 1890s. Poverty notebooks The first part of Booth's survey was the investigation into London poverty which started in 1886 …

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Browse Charles Booth's London's digitised Poverty notebooks for information relating to poverty in London in the 1880s and 1890s.

One of the most striking products of the inquiry were the maps of London, coloured street by street to indicate the levels of poverty and wealth. The first of these series was produced based on the information gathered from the School Board visitors representing the situation in 1889 and was widely circulated and commented upon.