London-1666 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19514

Map Date:

1666

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 182.d.2 (25)

Town name:

Abergele, 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 before the fire in 1666', 'Plan de Londres tel quil Etoi avant L'incendie de 1666 grave par Hollar.'

Comments on map:

Reputedly published by Richard Blome: title cuts into detail. Scale measured as 1.5 inches to 1 mile, which is certainly wrong.

Scale:

1:25,344*

Map-maker:

W. Hollar [author].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

27.5 x 17.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

royal palaces

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

principal Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

mental

Recreation and sports venues:

bear-baiting

Known copies of map:

DH15: BOL Gough Maps London 6 [state?]; Westminster Archives Box 65 no.9, Windsor Castle [DH15(1)]; BLML Maps 187.L.2(7) [1667+: DH15(2)]; Soc of Antiqs [DH15(3)]; BLML Maps Maps 182.d.2(25) [ex 18.d.7(25), GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Westminster Archives Box 65 no.10 [with French inscription: DH15(4)]; BL, CUL Maps.17.G.3, CUL VIII.9.7 [Stockdale 1796: DH15(a)]; GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [Stockdale 1796: DH15(a)].

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Shipping in river.

Arms and heraldry:

livery companies, municipal, misc: East India Company.

Ferries:

ferry

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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