William Roy blue plaque

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# William Roy at 10 Argyll Street Standing before this elegant Georgian townhouse in the heart of Westminster, you're at the address where Major-General William Roy established his residence during the latter decades of the eighteenth century, a period when he was transforming British mapmaking fro...

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10 Argyll Street, Westminster, W1

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Major-General William Roy 1726-1790 founder of the Ordnance Survey lived here