William Smith green plaque


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# William Smith at 15 Buckingham Street Standing at this elegant Georgian townhouse in the heart of London's Strand, you're gazing upon the very rooms where William Smith conceived and executed his revolutionary geological map between 1804 and 1819. It was here, in this modest address near the Tham...
Location
15 Buckingham Street, WC2
Inscription
William Smith 1769-1839 "Father of English Geology" made the first map of an entire country -England and Wales- in 1815 lived on this site 1804-1819