London-1706 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23242

Map Date:

1706

Repository reference:

Guildhall Library, La. Pr. Gp. 3 k1238873

Town name:

Bolton: Little Bolton, 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 citty of London much inlarged since the Great Fire in 1666 in which are several streets places and buildings of note. which have been added since aney other mapps of London before this hath been published.'

Scale:

1:7040

Map-maker:

Henry Overton, White Horse without Newgate, London [pr, sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

95.3 x 57.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

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, wharfs: Not many stairs; pictorial shipping in river, and groups of rowing boats by stairs.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, drill halls, town walls, (pictorial)

Welfare and charitable:

mental

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Darlington & Howgego's no.53: BL, GL La.Pr.Gp.3 k1238873, RGS.

Industry:

textiles, timber: [Pictorial tenters].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, misc: May Pole [in Strand: pictorial].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

Inns of Court

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: List of Southwark churches is on drape.

Monuments:

columns, (pictorial): [In Covent Garden].

Crosses:

multiple crosses, (pictorial): [Charing Cross, ? cross at west end of Cornhill].

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Dividers above scale.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [City: top left].

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Retail activity:

publisher of map

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

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