City of London-London: Cheap Ward-1720 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18370

Map Date:

[1720]

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

City of London

Town name:

London: Cheap Ward

Map type:

Ward

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ325812

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3281

Map title:

'Cheape Ward with its division into parishes, taken from the last survey, with corrections and additions.'

Comments on map:

In: John Stow, revised John Strype, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark, 6th edition, London: Innys, etc, 2 vols, 1754-5, Vol I (1754), f.p. 546.

Scale:

1:1800

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

35.0 x 30.3

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: Note below title: 'Note that the Places like Courts, and not figured are Merhants houfes, or Taverns, or Places of very fmall account.'

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised: Some public buildings pictorial.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, Ward

Known copies of map:

Ralph Hyde's ward map catalogue, no.52(2). Strype 1720 (I, bk 3, fp 26) [HW52(1)]; Strype 1754-5 (I, fp 546) [HW52(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] [original]; [1999: Ralph Hyde, Ward maps of the City of London, London Topographical Society, 1999].

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Clubs and societies:

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

Symbolic elements:

Grinning grotesque face above title.

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Blackwell Hall.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete