London-1720
CBTM:
19520
Map Date:
1720
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 44.F.7
Town name:
Abingdon: St Helen, 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 plan of the citys of London, Westminster and borough of Southwark; with the new additional buildings, anno 1720'.
Comments on map:
In A new general atlas..., London: Browne, Taylor, Senex, etc, 1721, f.p.206. Similar source to Exeter 19517-8: Ogilby & Morgan? Wards listed, but no boundaries.
Scale:
1:11,088
Map-maker:
John Senex [author], S. Parker [dr, eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
58.0 x 50.5 [overall: map 58.0 x 36.2].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
river stairs: Named.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Pictorial, notably so for St Pauls.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, mental, workhouses
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
DH65: BLML Maps 44.f.7, CUL Atlas.2.72.1, Atlas.2.72.8, Lambeth-Minet 2/1720/MF (AP837), Westminster Archives Box 65, no.27; Westminster Archives L.13 [1720: DH.65]; Westminster Archives Map Cabt A 061 [Weller litho, 1863: DH65(i)]; Bishopsgate Institute L.18(727), BOL G.A.Lond. 4o 102, Camden 85.23 1720 [facsim. reprint fr Part 68 of Old & New London, 1873]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 1, Map 26 [says 1865 facsimile].
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
Inns of Court
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Centrepiece of dedication is city arms with sitting supporters, crown, mace, sword, barrels, bales, entwinned snakes, open book, palatte, cornucopias, and other odds and ends.
Symbolic elements:
City arms with supporters, crown, mace, sword, barrels, bales, entwinned snakes, open book, palatte, cornucopias: around dedication.
Crosses:
CP
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Shipping and boats in river.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ferries:
ferry: [Horse Ferry].
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds
Cemeteries:
shown
Dedicee of map:
Rt Worshipful Sir Peter Delme, Alderman.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
misc: Decoy.
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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