London-1658 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22289

Map Date:

? 1658

Repository reference:

BL Crace Port. 1 (34)

Town name:

Berwick upon Tweed, 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:

'The newest & exactest Mapp of the most famous cities of London and Westminster and their suburbs... by T. Porter.'

Comments on map:

Scale of 1 inch to 500 paces: a 60-pace inch indicates 1:15,000, but comparative measurement indicates 1:10,000-1:10,560; seems to be compressed south-north and expanded west-east.

Scale:

1:10,560*

Map-maker:

T. Porter [author], Robt Walton, Rose & Crown, West end of St Paules [pr, sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

78.7 x 18.7 [2 plates].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits, misc: Water houfe; ['Condit'].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

customs

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, volunteer parade grounds, town walls, (pictorial), misc.: Military garden.

Welfare and charitable:

pest houses

Known copies of map:

Darlington & Howgego no.11: [DH11(0)]; BL Crace Port. I.34 [DH11(1); BLML Maps 3480 (374), 3480 (375), BOL (E)C17:70 London (437) [LTS 1898]; CUL Maps.AA.72.89.1- [DH11(1a)];

Industry:

textiles: [Pictorial tenters].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

misc: Gaming house.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

Inns of Court

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Symbolic elements:

Female supporters: of London arms.

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Dog houfe; table-like object on Tower hill is presumably the scaffold; circular building on west side of Southwark may be a theatre.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial boats and shipping in river, animals in St James's Park.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal, misc: Top centre-left (roughly central to western plate): apparently England, Wales and Ireland; [top centre-right (roughly central to eastern plate): City of London (with female supporters: 'Justice' with sword to left, 'Prudence' to right).

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

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