The development of Coventry's city boundary.

Select a year: Pre-1842 1842 1890 1899 1928 1932 2004

Amanda Slater has taken a wonderful set of photographs, which show many of the decorative boundary marker posts that were placed around the city when it was extended in 1928 and 1932. Please take a look at them on the Flickr website.

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The original city wall is shown in brown in the centre of the map to put into perspective the comparative growth of Coventry since the middle ages.

Please note: The roads shown in blue and railways in black were not necessarily all in existence during each of the years shown but I have included them as reference points for clarity.