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London-1675

CBTM:
23327
Map Date:
? 1675
Repository reference:
LMA-GLC SC/PM/XX/02/018
Town name:
Stepney, Lambeth, 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:
'A new map of the citties of London Westminster & ye borough of Southwarke with their suburbs.'
Comments on map:
Fine, dense depiction of buildings and divisions: streets tend to run straighter than one might expect in reality: an 'angular', 'precision', 'geometrical' look. 'Scale of 2000 common paces, containing one English mile'.
Scale:
1:13,333
Map-maker:
Robert Green, Rose & Crown, Budg Row, Robert Morden, ye Atlas, Cornhill [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
56.8 x 32.8
Number of parts:
1
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, river stairs: Pictorial boats and ships on Thames.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Not conspicuous: gap where St Pauls should be.
Public buildings:
customs
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, volunteer parade grounds, town walls, (pictorial)
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
bear-baiting
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Known copies of map:
BL; BL Prints & Drawings Case 75; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] SC/PM/XX/02/018;
Industry:
timber
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
Inns of Court
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Commons:
shown
Monuments:
columns, Monuments: [Column in Covent Garden, ''The Pyramid in New Fish Street'' (Monument)].
Ferries:
ferry
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
generalised/schematic
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
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