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The Historic Print
Type your postcode and find your house as the Ordnance Survey drew it more than a century ago. These are the town plans of London and twelve other British cities, at five or ten feet to the mile — a scale so large that every building has its own outline, every back yard its own wall, and the glasshouses at the bottom of the garden are drawn one by one. The survey is printed as it was engraved, or in two colours from your palette, with the ground it covers measured and named.
From £19.95 unframed, £59.95 framed · Needs: a postcode. No data.

What it reads from your data
A old map of my street, from your own activities
- The Ordnance Survey town plans of London, surveyed in the 1890s at five feet to the mile, and of twelve more cities, surveyed between the 1840s and 1910 and mostly at ten feet to the mile.
- Your postcode, put on the right sheet and the right street — 2,702 of the 3,529 sheets have had their borders measured to make that exact, and the rest can still be read by eye.
- Every building drawn in outline, with yards, glasshouses, trees and benchmarks.
- The street names the surveyors lettered across the roads themselves.
- How much ground the print holds, as a scale bar, and where it is, as coordinates.
- Two settings: inset and ruled like a plate in an atlas, or edge to edge across the paper.
Every part of the print can be moved, resized, recoloured or removed in the Studio; the route, the map and the words each take a colour of their own. Nothing is printed until you order.
Good to know
Which places can I have?
London, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Salford, Newcastle and Gateshead, Nottingham and Sheffield. The Ordnance Survey drew town plans for many more places; these are the ones in the register so far, each sheet checked for a licence that lets its print be sold, and more are added a city at a time. If your postcode falls outside them the search says so rather than moving you somewhere near.
Will my house be on it?
If it was standing when the surveyors came through, yes, and drawn in its own outline. If it was built later you will find the field, the orchard, the brickworks or the terrace that stood there instead, which is often the more interesting print.
Why does it credit the National Library of Scotland?
Because they digitised the sheets and publish them under a licence that permits this, on the condition that they are credited. That credit is printed on every one of these, in small type under the map. It is not a watermark and it is not negotiable — it is the reason the print can exist at all.
Can I change the colour of the map?
Yes, though it opens as drawn: the sheet exactly as it was printed, with your palette setting the paper around it. Switch on "Colour the survey" and the engraving is carried into two colours from the palette, its ink and its paper, so every line and letter stays where the surveyor put it and only the colours change. A dark palette turns the sheet pale on charcoal, and with only two colours left a century of foxing falls away, so a coloured print often reads more clearly than the scan. The credit then says the map was recoloured, because the licence asks that a change be shown.
How much ground does one print hold?
As much or as little as you frame. Two hundred metres across gives you your own street and the ones behind it, with the lettering large and legible; four hundred takes in the park, the station and the school. The studio tells you how sharp the print will be as you change it, because a wider frame spreads the same engraving over more paper, and it offers only the sizes that frame will print sharply at, up to A2.
How it works
From the Studio to your wall in three steps.

Step 01
Choose your subject
Connect Strava in one tap for a race, a ride or a whole year. Or search for a place, type a postcode for your street on the old Ordnance Survey, or add a photograph — none of those needs an account.

Step 02
Choose your style
Start from a finished design and make it yours: the words, the colours, the size. Twenty-three styles for your own miles, four treatments for a place, six layouts for a photograph, and the old survey as drawn or in your colours.

Step 03
We print and frame it
Pick a frame, check out, and it is printed to order on fine-art paper, framed by hand and posted to you, tracked.
- Made to orderPrinted for you, never from stock
- Fine-art paperArchival inks, framed by hand
- Tracked deliveryUK delivery £7.85, tracked · worldwide, priced at checkout
- Arrives damaged?We replace it, no quibble


