London-1720 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18482

Map Date:

[1720]

Repository reference:

BL 1791.d.5

Town name:

London, Westminster, Southwark

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ320811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'A new plan of the City of London, Westminster and Southwark.'

Comments on map:

For John Strype, ed, Survey of the Cities of London & Westminster, by John Stow, 1720.

Scale:

1:21,120

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

37.8 x 28.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

royal palaces

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

river stairs: Numerous.

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Suburban wells.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

Parliament

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, misc: Pest House Ground.

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, Ward: [Wards shown in City of London, parishes shown elsewhere].

Known copies of map:

DH66. BL 1791.d.5, HLL 942.1, CUL Maps.aa.71.72.1, RGS Eng & Wales S.188, Westminster Archives Map Cabt C, GL, Tower Hamlets map 1188 [DH66]; BOL Gough London 48, 49 ['1720']; Lambeth-Minet 2/[1720]/S3298 ['1720']; BOL G.A.London b.23, CUL S474.a.92.21 [in 1929 Batsford issue of Danel Defoe, A tour thro' London...]; BOL C17:70 London c.6 [in Phillippa Glanville, London in Maps, London: The Connoisseur, 1972];

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

Inns of Court

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Commons:

shown

Symbolic elements:

(1) Cartouche round city arms has four putti, and has Mercury at the top; (2) Cartouche for main title has two flying putti, a trumpet-blowing one on top, and below Brittania with shield talking to someone with a crown emitting rays; (3) Cartouche round dedicee has fruit and flowers, and two putti at top.

Crosses:

misc, (pictorial): [Crosses or obelisks, etc].

Arms and heraldry:

dedicee of map, municipal

Cemeteries:

shown

Dedicee of map:

Rt Hon Sir George Thorold, Bart, Lord Mayor of London.

Ordnance Survey's

1868-1876

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-7

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1848-51

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey