City of London-London: Broad Street Ward-1754 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18367

Map Date:

[1754]

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

City of London

Town name:

London: Broad Street Ward, Cornhill Ward

Map type:

Ward

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ329813

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3281

Map title:

'Broad Street Ward, with its division into parishes, taken from the last survey, with corrections and additions.'; 'Cornhill Ward with its division into parishes, taken from the last survey, &c.'

Comments on map:

Hyde (1999) gives scale as about 1 inch to 140 feet. One part, two titles. Below scale is note, 'Note the places like Courts, and not figured are Merchants houfes or Taverns.' 'Published ... 1754 for Strype's Survey.'

Scale:

1:1620

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

36.8 x 29.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, Ward

Known copies of map:

Ralph Hyde's ward map catalogue, no.37(2). Strype 1720 (I, bk 2, fp 109) [HW37(1)]; Strype 1754-5 (I, fp 437) [HW37(2)]: [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]; London Metropolitan Archives [Mason & Payne fac, c.1890]; [1999: in Ralph Hyde, Ward maps of the City of London, London Topographical Society, 1999].

Service and professional:

banks

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Clubs and societies:

trade and livery company halls: [Drapers Hall and Garden].

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete