London-1658 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18539

Map Date:

1658

Repository reference:

University of Exeter Geography Department

Town name:

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:

'London'; 'An exact delineation of the cities of London and Westminster and the suburbs thereof, together wth ye burrough of Southwark and all ye thorough-fares highwaies streetes lanes & common allies wthin ye same Composed by a scale, and ichnographically described by Richard Newcourt of Somerton in the Countie of Somersett Gentleman'

Comments on map:

Recorded from Fisher-Margary (1981). Scale recorded as 5.58 inches to 900 yards (1:5806) from scale-bar. Not much description, which is particularly noticeable along the river. The Survey of London, Vol 34, p.vii, says the map was surveyed in 1643-7.

Scale:

1:5760

Map-maker:

Richard Newcourt [sv], William Faithorne [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

162 x 85

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Penal:

misc, (pictorial): Scaffold on Tower Hill.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, volunteer parade grounds, drill halls, town walls, (pictorial): Artillery Yard in Southwark.

Welfare and charitable:

misc: Charterhouse.

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

DH.12. Originals: Bibliotecque Nationale Paris [DH12(1)]; BLML Maps 183.p.1(4) [DH12(2)]. Photographic reproductions: BLML Maps 183.p.1(2), Bishopsgate Institute FFL.18, BOL (E)C17:70 London (442), CUL Maps.BB.72.90.10-, Lambeth-Minet 2/1658/MF (AP829), RGS Eng & Wales S.1(7), also S1(34), Westminster Archives Map Cabinet A, 044 [London Topographical Society, 1905: DH12.i]; BOL C17:70 London d.1 [1908: Geraldine Edith Mitton, Maps of Old London, London: Black, 1908]; BOL (E)C17:70 London (1240), BOL (E)C17:70 London (1250), RGS 14.B.282 [1981: Harry Margary & Guildhall Library, Early maps of London, 1553-1667: intro by John Fisher]. Transcriptions [DH12.a,b,c are from same source: a tracing]: Bishopsgate Institute FFL.18, BLML Maps 3480(149), CUL Atlas.3.85.2, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [Evans/Jarman 1857: DH12(a)]; BLML maps 3480 (211); CUL Maps.b.71.86.1, RGS Eng & Wales S.142, Westminster Archives Ashbridge 61 f.912.4211 [1863 Stanford reengraving, DH12.b]; BLML Maps 3480(242), Bishopsgate Institute QL.18, BOL (E)C17:70 London (389), CUL Maps.71.87.2, Tower Hamlets map 303 [Stanford 1878: [DH12.c]. Uncertain: BL Print Room Case F.75, Camden London Map Cabinet, London Metropolitan Archives RM 3 [photocopy: open access].

Industry:

textiles: [Apparent tenters].

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground: [St James Park, with deer].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Inset views of Westminster Abbey and St Pauls, with decorative framing.

Symbolic elements:

Dividers above scale, which is on 'flattened-rams-head' background; there is also a genealogy of Bruti, the alleged founder of London, as well as a short history.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Plenty of boats and ships in river, but the fields outside the built-up area are apparently unoccupied.

Arms and heraldry:

livery companies, royal arms

Miscellaneous religious group:

- ye Abbey in Southwark.

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

Skeleton survey