London-1690
CBTM:
22195
Map Date:
? 1690
Repository reference:
BOL Gough Maps 21, fol 8
Town name:
Beaconsfield, 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 Mapp of the Cityes of London & Westminster & Burrough of Southwark with their suburbs as it is now rebuilt since the late dreadfull fire'.
Comments on map:
Dated c.1690 in Darlington & Hogego. Scale noted as 1000 paces in an English mile: measures as 4.5 inches to 100 paces, confirmed by comparative measurement. Characterised by a tendency to straight lines and right angles.
Scale:
1:14,080
Map-maker:
John Oliver [author], Philip Lea, Atlas & Hercules, Cheapside, London [sell].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
59.0 x 44.7
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Building names:
royal palaces, important buildings only
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
river stairs, wharfs
Places of Worship:
incompletely shown, (pictorial)
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, volunteer parade grounds, town walls, (pictorial)
Welfare and charitable:
pest houses
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Known copies of map:
Darlington & Howgego no.31: BLML Maps 3480(2) [Exeter 19517], Maps 39.f.5(27); BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] Lar. vol. IV (Topographical), Gough Maps 21 Fol 8; GL [DH31(1)]; BLML Maps 3480 (325), BOL Gough Maps 21 Fol 8 [Exeter 22195], Gough Maps 46, Fol 4, Soc. Antiqs, Westminster Archives L.13(1726) [1690c, pub Lea: DH31(2)]; BLML Maps 3480(39), K.Top.20.26, Westminster Archives Ashbridge 61 [1726, pub John Bowles: DH31(2a): west half only]; Lambeth-Minet 2/c.1680/MF, RGS Eng & Wales S.445, Tower Hamlets maps 1746, 1746a [Guildhall Lib, 1974, DH31.i]; GL [1728.c, Bowles: DH31(3)].
Industry:
timber
Gardens:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left: sword bearer and macebearer flank list of buildings; top centre a resting Mercury with shield, snakes and headgear, surrounded by putti; bottom right 'Thamehis', with pouring jar, fish and ship.
Commons:
shown
Monuments:
Monuments: [''The Pyramid'', i.e. The Monument].
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping below London Bridges, pictorial boats and barges above. Horns on pole at Cuckolds Point.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Both on shield in vignette, top centre, and with supporters top right].
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
generalised/schematic
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