London-1705
CBTM:
22672
Map Date:
? 1705
Repository reference:
BOL (E) C17:70 London (1358)
Town name:
Stepney, Rotherhithe, London, Westminster, Southwark, Whitechapel
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ320811
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'Accurater prospect und grundris der konigl: Gros-Britanisch: Haupt und residentz stadt London edirf von Iohann Bapt: Homanns Kayserl: Geographi seel: Erben in Nurnberg.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from Wychwood Editions reissue 1988, from original in Guildhall Library. Scale of feet and of 0.5 English mile. Evidently derived from Ogilby & Morgan. Separate numbering systems used for features on map and those on the prospect at bottom, so that tying the two together might not be very easy for a stranger. Language on map proper is mixture of German and English, and mistranscription ('Pinder of Wakefelt'). Dating from Darlington & Howgego: a Guildhall Library note in their annotated copy suggests that probably rather later: RGS catalogue says Homann firm only founded 1730.
Scale:
1:12,000
Map-maker:
Johann Baptist Homann, Nurnberg [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
67.3 x 34.8 [map area: 69.7 x 58.7 overall].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Building names:
royal palaces
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: 'Important' buildings pictorial.
Water transport infrastructure:
docks
Sanitary and utility information:
water works: [Pump House].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, drill halls, town walls, (pictorial)
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, pest houses
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges
Known copies of map:
Darlington & Howgego's no. 51b [old no.48]
Industry:
textiles: [Pictorial tenters].
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
Inns of Court
Waterbodies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left: Whitehall palace; top right: Royal Exchange; along bottom: prospect of London from south. The monument on the last is captioned as 'St. Monumentum.'
Commons:
shown
Borders:
decorative
Monuments:
Monuments: ['Monument'].
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Business & commercial:
misc: Receipt House.
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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