Holiday Gift Guide Personalised Old Map Of Stratford Perfect Gift [S3padOTB]

Rediscover Stratford’s rich story with a personalised old map centred on this vibrant London district. Whether you’re searching for a thoughtful housewarming gift, a unique family keepsake, or a striking conversation piece for your own home, our bespoke Stratford map connects you to the area’s fascinating evolution. Bringing together historical detail and personal significance, this map captures the landscape of Stratford as it once was, inviting you to explore familiar streets in an entirely new light.

Your bespoke map covers the landscapes that now embrace the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the historic Theatre Royal Stratford East, the former site of Stratford Market, the imposing Bow Bridge, and the charming Stratford Old Town Hall. These are the areas whose stories are layered into Stratford’s past, mapped as they appeared decades ago. As you explore, you may spot railway lines, canals, and the outlines of landmarks which shaped the community long before today’s modern skyline arrived.

Full customisation is at the heart of this map. You can centre your map on a specific address—perhaps your family home or a place of special meaning. Important locations, such as schools, favourite pubs, or where you first met, can be highlighted with bespoke icons or annotations. Add a dedication message for a friend or loved one, or change the map’s title and subtitle to mark a milestone, anniversary, or inside joke. Every map is created to order, ensuring your personal history is woven seamlessly into Stratford’s.

Your personalised map could focus on these areas in Stratford

• Stratford Town Centre
• Westfield Stratford City
• Maryland
• Stratford High Street
• Chobham Manor
• East Village (former Olympic Village)
• Forest Gate
• Plaistow
• Bow
• Hackney Wick

Our maps are produced using museum-grade giclée printing on heavyweight archival paper or sumptuous artist’s cotton canvas, providing vivid detail and lasting quality. Choose from a selection of elegant FSC-certified wooden frames, crystal-clear acrylite glazing, or elevate your map further with a float-framed stretched canvas presentation. Each piece is professionally hand-finished, ready to hang, and designed to become a lasting family heirloom.

Every map is based on authentic Ordnance Survey sheets published from the 1870s to the 1960s. The Ordnance Survey’s meticulous mapping involved teams of surveyors traversing Stratford’s streets and fields, capturing every lane, building, and natural feature with remarkable precision. These Victorian and mid-century maps are admired not only for their accuracy but also for their clear typography and decorative cartographic style, making them as beautiful as they are informative. Your personalised Stratford map is a window into the area’s bygone days, crafted with both historical integrity and artisanal care.

Please note you are purchasing a fully customised old map. Modern landmarks, such as your house, may not have been built yet! You can contact me to check if a certain location, landmark or feature is shown on this map.

Generally, larger maps look much better than smaller maps, because you can enjoy all of the smaller details. If you need a smaller map, I would suggest ‘zooming in’ so that the map covers a smaller area.

Because these maps are custom made to order, we can make you a map that looks great at at any size, from very small (8x10in/20x25cm) all the way to a few metres. If you are looking for a very large map, please get in touch.

The model in the listing images is holding the 18x24in (45x60cm) version of this map.

Every map can be personalised or customised, for example if you want to mark your house or street on the map. The fifth listing image shows an example of my map personalisation service.

This personalised map would make a wonderful housewarming, birthday, Christmas, Father's Day, Mother’s Day, wedding anniversary or work leaving gift for someone from Stratford, or someone who works there.

This map is available as a giclée print on acid free archival matte paper, or on artist’s cotton canvas. Several frame choices are available for free, or custom framing is available for an additional fee. Please get in touch if you’re looking to order a very large map for a hotel or office, or if you’re looking for a size that isn’t available on my shop.