Mapping the history of Liverpool

Old maps, interactive maps, and the historic landscape of Liverpool

Explore Liverpool archaeology, discover the Liverpool your ancestors knew, and find out about your own area of the city

Open the full map for more tools like:

  • More feature types like listed buildings
  • Bookmarking your place
  • Old map overlays

Also on Historic Liverpool:

Extract from an old map of Liverpool

Old maps of Liverpool

There are always new maps being added to the site. There are currently over 25 old maps, from the 17th to the 20th century.

Explore your local area across 300 years!

Browse old maps

Liverpool History Shop

Almost all the old maps on this site can be bought as high quality prints, great for framing, and as a present!

There’s also the book – Liverpool: a landscape history, also available to buy from this website.

Go to the shop

Interactive maps

As well as the history map, there are some more specific map tools for you to explore.

Historic suburbs

The 'townships' of Liverpool and beyond have individual characters built up over the centuries.

Explore the local histories of these townships, as well as the centre of Liverpool itself.

Read township histories
Old streets

The streets of Liverpool within the boundary of Queens Drive, as they were before vast swathes were demolished in the 20th century.

You can search for a road using the box in the top left of the map.

Locate an old street
Victorian parishes

All the parishes in the Liverpool area and slightly beyond, as they were in 1851. There are also some Anglican churches from the era.

You can see details about when they were built (and demolished) where that information is known.

Find old parishes
Extract from a map called Liverpool, part of Birkenhead, the docks, and Cheshire coast

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