London-1733 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22210

Map Date:

1733

Repository reference:

BOL Gough Maps 192

Town name:

Bedford: St Paul, 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 pocket map of the citties of London & Westminster and the suburbs thereof being a new & exact plan with the additions of the new buildings churches &c to the prsent year 1733' [sic].

Comments on map:

This seems to be the Will. Rhoades map of 1731, Darlington & Howgego's no.76, in a state not listed by them: cropped to neat-line. Watermens and hackney coach rates tabulated at bottom of map.

Scale:

1:14,080*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

40.2 x 26.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

royal palaces, important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Public etc buildings pictorial.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

river stairs, wharfs

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits, misc: [Conduit House], Spring Watr. House.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Westminster Abbey still shown without west towers.

Public buildings:

central government

Defence and military:

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

Welfare and charitable:

mental, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

uncertain: Apparent from junction of vertical and horizontal building hatching: evidently city liberties.

Known copies of map:

Darlington & Howgego no.76: Essex RO [1730: DH76(0)]; BL, BOL Gough London 192, Lambeth-Minet 2/1731/Roll 34 [photo] [1731, pub Hutton: DH76(1)]; CUL Maps.BB.71.7.41 [1748, pub Griffin: DH76(2)];

Industry:

textiles, timber: [Tenters].

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

Inns of Court

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping and boats in river.

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

out-of-town inns only

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