London-1735 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18680

Map Date:

1735

Repository reference:

BLML Maps* 3480 (48)

Town name:

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 and exact plan of the city's of London and Westminster the borough of Southwark and the additional new buildings churches &c to the present year 1735...'

Comments on map:

Rather reminiscent of Exeter 18674-5, e.g., with hackney and water fares information and a description of London: there is perhaps a gazetteer, absent from this copy.

Scale:

1:5280

Map-maker:

Thos Jeffreys, Red Lyon St, near St Johns Gate [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

114.6 x 69.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

G

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

river stairs, wharfs: Numerous; named.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

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

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, Ward: [Wards inside city, parishes elsewhere].

Known copies of map:

DH79: BOL Gough Maps London 22, Westminster Archives Ashbridge 61; BLML Maps 3480(48), CUL Maps.aa.71.73.1, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1735: DH79]; GL [n.d., c.1749-50].

Industry:

textiles, timber: [Cloth tenters].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore: [In future County Hall-Royal Festival Hall area].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Reference system:

squaring

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

A few boats in river.

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