Limits of the hills of mortality

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Permalink Reply by Lauren on September 28, 2017 at 20:05

This is the bigger picture

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Permalink Reply by JoeW on September 28, 2017 at 20:33

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

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Permalink Reply by Lauren on September 28, 2017 at 21:04

Ahhhhhh now that makes more sense, thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Amit on September 29, 2017 at 11:22

Although the hills of mortality does sound much more romantic. There is *very* little life outside zone 2 after all... ;-)

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Permalink Reply by 1vut8bf3om5m9 on September 29, 2017 at 11:41

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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