Barking-1746

18543

1746

University of Exeter Geography Department

Barking, Bromley, Deptford, Greenwich, Brentford, Richmond, London, Westminster, Southwark, Kingston on Thames

General Purpose

whole built-up area

TQ320811

TQ 3083

[In English:] 'An exact survey of the city's of London Westminster ye borough of Southwark and the country near 10 miles round London'; [also Latin and French titles].

Recorded from James Howgego/Harry Margary facsimile, 1971. Scale measured as 5.10 inches to 1 mile: this presumably denotes either 1:12,500 or 1:12,672. Also includes scales of miles, leagues or versts applicable to Russia, France, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Spain, Poland and Germany, as well as of feet, chains and yards, presumably to inform the foreigners that London is a larger city than theirs. The Howgego-Margary version includes a 1:50,688 (5.12 ins: 4 miles) index dated 1762, 63.9 x 50.1, based on Roque's map of London on the same scale as that of Paris, with dedication to the Duke of Montague, Grand Master of the Order of the Bath, Master General of the Ordnance and Master of the Great Wardrobe, with Brittania, royal arms and Honi... and 'Equitas actionum regula' and cannon and eagles at bottom (avoiding the mapping of Thornton Heath); scales of miles, yards, leagues and toises, and latitude and longitude, on meridian of St Pauls. The sheet lines may be suggestive, as the centre of the mapped area is roughly on the site of Victoria Station, so that the mapped area just manages to fit in Hampton Court. Stated to be surveyed in 1741-45: some of the sheets have 1744 publication dates, but the main title is dated 1746.

1:12,672

R. Parr [eng], John Rocque [author, pb].

engraved

247 x 192 [main map on 16 sheets about 64.0 x 49.0].

16

general legend

generally

important buildings only, royal palaces

noticeably generalised

shown

watermills, windmills

river stairs

misc, reservoirs: Named wells, Sluice House (on New River).

Anglican/established predominates: Mostly omitted in City of London, and shown in plan rather than by symbol elsewhere.

central government, town hall/administrative

gallows: [At Tyburn: occupied].

castles/forts/batteries

hospitals, workhouses

exchanges, markets

sports grounds

shown, orchards

DH94 [1:12,672], DH101 [1:50,688]: Bodleian Library Gough Maps 85 ['1746']; British Library Maps 24.e.26, BL K.6.87.5 Tab.End., Crace Port.XIX.18, CUL Atlas.2.74.2, Hanson.bb.41, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Kensington Library [DH94(1)]; Westminster Archives Map Cabt C [?DH94(1)]; Bishopsgate Institute FFL.18, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [DH94(2)]; Westminster Archives Map Cabinet C [DH94(2/3)]; CUL [1747: DH94(3)]; British Library Maps 11.e.13, Bodleian Library Gough Maps 82, CUL Atlas.2.74.3, GL [1748: DH94(4)]; BL 1.Tab.23, K.20.37 [3 sheets only], London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1751-4.c: DH94(5)]; Westminster Archives Basement Ashbridge 061. Ex.O.S. [DH94(5/6?): with New Road]; RGS [1751: DH94(6)]; Gough Maps 21 Fol 21 [1761]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1769: DH94(7)]; PC [1766, Dury: DH94(7-8)]; BL, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1769, Sayer: DH94(8)]; Bodleian Library Gough Maps London 26 [1770: Sayer & Bowles]; Crace Port.XIX.19 [1774: not DH]; British Library Maps 3480(243), Bodleian Library (E)C17:70 London (388), CUL Maps.71.87.14-, Camden 85.23 1746, RGS Eng & Wales S.141, Tower Hamlets map 66 [facsim. pub Stanford, 1878, DH94(i)]; BL [Mason & Payne, 1887-9, centre sheet: DH94(ii)]; BL Maps refce, Bodleian Library C17:70 London d.1 [in Sir Walter Besant, London in the 18th century, reused in Geraldine Edith Mitton, Maps of Old London, London: Black, 1908]; CUL Maps.aa.19.G.49, Maps.aa.19.G.50 [[Peridon Ltd, 1967], Bodleian Library (E)C17:70 London (1018), Camden 85.23 1746, Lambeth-Minet 2/1741-5/M301 (AP838-841), Southwark Library Map Draw 6, Maps 697, 698 [1971: facsimile, pub Harry Margary; intro by James Howgego: DH94(iii)]; Tower Hamlets maps 1745, 1811 [centre sheet, GLC Pub 102: DH94(iv)]; [as per DH94(ii), Guildhall Library/Cook Hammond & Kell, 1987: DH94(5)]; London Metropolitan Archives open access photocopy RM 6 [photocopy]. DH101 (Index sheet, 1:50,688]: British Library Maps 3479(18)]; Hackney Archives V.94 [repro]; Camden 85.23 1747 [1908: London Topographical Society]; Bodleian Library (E)C17:70 London (671), Holb LS 85.23 1769 [1769: GLC no.106]; Bodleian Library (E)C17:70 London (108) [1971: Harry Margary].

textiles: [Tenters].

shown

private parks and ornamental ground

Inns of Court

fragmentary for location purposes

shown

abstract decorative: Three.

slopes shown

shown

decorative

quarries/pits

(1) on sheet 13, winds puff round direction indicator; (2) on sheets 5 and 12, King Lud (?) converses with Brittania, with St Pauls etc in background, with bearded loin-clothed male in foreground, and putti doing things with maps on either side; (3) on sheets 8 and 9 the dedication is topped by the royal arms, 'Honi...', and 'Vivit post funera virtis', with a lion on either side, Brittania looking across at a figure of ? Justice, holding an architectural drawing, with to left putti with surveying instruments, globe, dividers and roll of paper and to right two more putti, with mallet, pattette and brushes, and head-and-shoulders, classical-style, 'Mecenas' on shield.

Shipping in river.

municipal, royal arms: [City of London].

ferry

Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington & Cork, Viscount Dungarvon, Baron Clifford of Lanesborough and Baron Boyle of Youghall, privy councillor and knight of the Garter.

out-of-town inns only

heath/uncultivated