John Ogilby blue plaque

Connection to This Location

# John Ogilby at Gracechurch Street At this precise junction where Gracechurch Street meets Cornhill, the King's Cosmographer John Ogilby established his Cornhill Standard—a fixed measurement point that would revolutionize London's mapmaking in the decades following the Great Fire of 1666. Standing...

Location

Gracechurch Street

Inscription

At this Junction the Cornhill Standard used by John Ogilby the King's Cosmographer 1600 - 1676 (plaque not yet erected)