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City of London-London: Queenhithe Ward-1720

CBTM:
18384
Map Date:
[1720]
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] Library
Historic county:
City of London
Town name:
Vintry Ward, London: Queenhithe Ward
Map type:
Ward
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ323818
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3281
Map title:
'Queen Hith Ward and Vintry Ward, with their division into parishes, taken from the last surveys.'
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. 692. The reference has 22 names, plus 12 'Additions & corrections'. Note below first reference: 'Note, that the places like Courts, Alleys, and not Figured, are Merchants Houfes, Inns, Taverns, or Courts of no name.'
Scale:
1:1800
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
17.5 x 30.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally: Includes 'Dunghill Lane'.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some public buildings pictorial.
Water transport infrastructure:
wharfs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish, Ward
Known copies of map:
Ralph Hyde's ward map catalogue, no. 96(1). In Strype's Stow survey, Vol I, bk 2, fp.1; also in Strype 1754-5, I, fp.693. Strype 1720 (I, bk 3, fp 1) [HW96(1)]; Strype 1754-5 (I, fp 693) [HW96(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]; [loose:] BOL Gough Maps 46 Fol 44 ['1670'] [original]; [1999: Ralph Hyde, Ward maps of the City of London, London Topographical Society, 1999].
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Clubs and societies:
trade and livery company halls
Borders:
decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Boats in river.
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown
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