In the late 18th century Highgate was a fashionable place to live for those with money. Robert Langford was a successful London businessman who decided to commission a surveyor to draw up a plan for a new house in the Highgate area. The surveyor was John Waddington, you can just make out his name in the bottom corner of the plan.

This source shows that maps and plans were being made to all sorts of scales and for many different purposes. Unfortunately, Langford never did get his plan turned into reality as he did not have enough land for such a grand design to fit into.

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