The plan for London’s first bypass

The plan to build the Euston Road & Pentonville Road, showing from Edgeware Road east to Islington High Street, with a key to show whose land and the proposed route would cut through. It was the scheme of the Duke of Grafton, who wanted a better route to drive his cattle to Smithfield Market.
Oxford Steet is also marked, as are Berkeley, Grosvenor, Cavendish, Hanover, Red Lion and Lincoln's Inn Squares. Buildings include Middlesex Hospital, Foundlings Hospital, Montague House (later the British Museum), St Giles's Church, Fenning's Folly (a building named for being built on marshy ground), 'Farthing Pye House' (a pub known for its pies, frequented by William Blake) and White Conduit House (future home to the White Conduit Club, later reorganised as the Marylebone Cricket Club).