Surrey-Southwark: St Saviour-1720 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19399

Map Date:

[1720]

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

Surrey

Town name:

Southwark: St Saviour, St George

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ323802

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

*

Map title:

'A mapp of the parishes of St. Saviours Southwark and St Georges taken from ye last survey with corrections'.

Comments on map:

In: John Stow, revised John Strype, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark, 6th edition, London: Innys, etc, 2 vols, 1754-5, Vol II (1755), f.p. 12. References 89-100 are 'Addition & Improvements'.

Scale:

1:3600

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

36.0 x 29.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals: [St Thomas: pictorial].

Recreation and sports venues:

bear-baiting

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

[In book form:] BL 1791.d.5, HLL 942.1 [1720]; BL 189.F.10, BOL E 10.31, Douce S.Subt 45, 46, TNA [PRO] Library [open access] [1754-5, ed 6].

Industry:

food/drink: [Vinegar Yard].

Gardens:

shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Symbolic elements:

Grotesque face: at top of cartouche.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

London bridge and boats in river and tied up at stairs shown pictorially.

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1871

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560