Surrey-Steatham-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23330

Map Date:

? 1840

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 5320 (2)

Historic county:

Surrey

Town name:

Steatham

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ300716

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3275

Map title:

'Map of the parish of Streatham in the county of Surrey...'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photographic copy of uncertain date and provenance; scale and dimensions. Dated 1840 by BL, 1843 by Wandsworth Local Studies Library: railway through Balham to Crystal Palace (1856) seems to have been added in manuscript.

Scale:

1:7128

Map-maker:

Thomas Jones Jnr, 52 Charing Cross, London [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

70.5 x 70.5

Number of parts:

2

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme: Hand-coloured.

Road names:

partly

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, boundary markers

Known copies of map:

London Metropolitan Archives [ex GLC Library] J.Wa. 530, 3182, 4123 [originals?]; BLML Maps 5320 (2) [photo: recorded as 76.0 x 72.7, 1:6600]; Battersea Library microfilm [of original in GLC Library].

Industry:

food/drink, misc: Indian Rubber Factory.

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways: 'Tram Way': Surrey Iron Railway.

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Dedicee of map:

Rev. Henry Blunt, A.M., Rector, Late Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1869

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560