London-1685 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22296

Map Date:

? 1685

Repository reference:

CUL Maps.aa.17.G.62

Town name:

Bexhill, 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 mapp of the cityes of London and Westminster with the borough of Southwark & all the suburbs shewing the severall streets, lanes, alleys, and most of the throwgh-faires, being a ready guide for all strangers to find any place therein. Drawne by W. Hollar, the like never done before. Sold by Robert Greene at the Rose and Crowne in Budge Row London, where you may have all sorts of mapps'.

Comments on map:

Reputedly c.1685.

Scale:

1:7040

Map-maker:

W. Hollar [dr], Robert Greene, Rose and Crowne, Budge Row, London [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

96.3 x 57.7 [2 plates].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

royal palaces, important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Public, etc, buildings pictorial.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, river stairs

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Some pictorial objects in streets in City may be conduits.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, volunteer parade grounds, town walls, (pictorial)

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Darlinton & Howgego's no.35: CUL Maps.aa.17.G.62, GL [DH35].

Industry:

textiles, timber: [Pictorial tenters].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, misc: May pole [pictorial].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

Inns of Court

Waterbodies:

shown

Monuments:

columns, Monuments: [Column in Covent Garden].

Symbolic elements:

Above scale: reclining female figure with dividers in left hand and statement in right hand, 'The scale's but small, Expect not truth in all.'

Crosses:

cross, named: [Charing Cross].

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial boats and shipping in river, and tied up at stairs.

Arms and heraldry:

royal arms, municipal: [City of London; both elaborate, with supporters].

Ferries:

ferry

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

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

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