Surrey-Lambeth-1848 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21270

Map Date:

? 1848

Repository reference:

London Metropolitan Archives Acc.2558/MW/C/31/555

Historic county:

Surrey

Town name:

Lambeth

Map type:

boundaries

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ310780

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3275

Map title:

'Lambeth Parish. No.1 North Marsh Ward.', '... No.2. South Ward Marsh.', '... No.3. Bishops Ward.', 'No.4 ... Princes Ward.', '... No.5. Vauxhall Ward.', '... No.6. Stockwell Ward.'

Comments on map:

Boundaries and main streets only: only included on grounds of scale. Dated 1848 in London Metropolitan Archives list: includes railway to Waterloo. Scale suggests it could be a little later, and derived from the Ordnance Survey 1:5280 Skeleton Map. All six signed by J.B. Clark, Vestry Clark.

Scale:

1:5280

Map-maker:

H. Akerman, Surveyor, Norwood [author], R. Newbery, Lith., 43 Castle St, Holborn, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

33.2 x 22.7 [x 4], 55.3 x 43.3 [x 2].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

important roads only

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.

Turnpikes:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, Ward

Known copies of map:

London Metropolitan Archives Acc.2558/MW/C/31/555.

Railways:

routes, passenger stations

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

'Hercules Buildings' on no.2.

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1870-1

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560