London-1841 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22185

Map date:

1841

Repository reference:

BOL JJ. Maps 11

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:

'Bauerkeller's new embossed map of London, 1841.'

Comments on map:

The 'embossed' effect is the raising in relief of the buildings. Wholly colour-printed, with street-names and other 'ordinary' text in blue. Highly photogenic. Scale is about 5.8 ins to 1 mile, with inset of Isle of Dogs, c.1:27,000, top right. Note on population, top left. Typgraphy looks 'foreign', e.g. open figure 4, and some misspelling, e.g. 'Marybonne'. Accompanying street-index is printed by Richard Watts, Crown Court, Temple Bar.

Scale:

1:10,800

Map-maker:

London & Paris: Bauerkeller & Co. [? author, ? pb]; Ackermann & Co., 96 Strand, London [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

114.7 x 67.0

Number of parts:

Legends:

boundaries: District-colouring.

Reference system:

squaring: 1.0-mile.

Colouring:

boundaries, land-use, decorative, other: Districts various colours; ordinary text blue; other text reversed-out; border ochre-red; public buildings red; ordinary buildings and squaring reversed out.

Stated measurements:

other: Mileages from London Bridge in river.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

royal palaces, important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, quays, river stairs, wharfs

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Post and telegraphs:

flagstaff, post offices

Industry:

engineering, oil/soap etc, rope walk, uncertain, misc: Manufactory; Cable factories, R. Mint, Vitriol Manufactory.

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Anglican are reversed-out cross on red.

Cemeteries:

shown

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, central government, Parliament

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, magazines/arsenals

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, mental, workhouses, misc: Royal Military Asylum.

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

bazaars, markets: [Horse Bazaar].

Service and professional:

banks, Inns of Court

Leisure and entertainment:

museums, art galleries

Waterbodies:

shown

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Parkland:

public parks, zoological gardens

Gardens:

nurseries

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, misc: Queens Bench, Fleet and Clink.

Known copies of map:

Darlington & Howgego no.377: BOL J.Maps 11, CUL Maps.18.G.33, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1841: [DH377(1)]; BL [1842: DH377(2)]; Bishopsgate Institute L.18 [1844: DH377(3)].

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