London-1755
CBTM:
23331
Map Date:
1.1755
Repository reference:
BLML Crace Collection Portfolio III, no. 107
Town name:
Bread Street, 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 cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark and the contigous buildings....'
Comments on map:
Scales of English and French feet. This copy is in 8 separate sheets, complete with plate-marks. 'Advertisement' at bottom says that is reduced from that printed on '24 Sheets of Imperial Paper', begun by John Rocque in March 1737 and published in June 1747, with roads added as a result of building Westminster Bridge.
Scale:
1:4800
Map-maker:
John Rocque [sv], Rd Benning [eng], R.W. Seale [engr 'letters'], John Pine, Thomas Bowles, John Tinney [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
48.3 x 58.5 [overall: map 46.5 x 48.5: plate 51.7 x 60.7], 48.3 x 57.5 [overall: map 48.3 x 48.7, plate 51.0 x 60.7], 48.3 x 57.7 [overall: map 48.3 x 48.7, plate 50.7 x 60.8], 48.3 x 57.8 [overall: map 46.7 x 48.7, plate 51.5 x 61.3], 48.3 x 59.2 [overall: map 47.5 x 48.7, plate 51.0 x 60.7], 48.3 x 59.3 [overall: map 48.3 x 48.7, plate 50.7 x 60.5], 48.3 x 59.3 [overall: map 48.3 x 48.7, plate 50.7], 48.5 x 58.5 [overall: map 46.5 x 48.5, plate 50.5 x 60.2].
Number of parts:
8
Road names:
generally
Building names:
royal palaces, important buildings only, outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Frontages only of 'ordinary' buildings: some buildings emphasised but not named.
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills: In plan.
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, river stairs, wharfs: Extensive pictorial boats and shipping in river, and also in the two Wet Docks north of Deptford.
Sanitary and utility information:
water works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: St Pauls shown in detail with piers, etc.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, central government, Parliament, internal revenue, misc: Wine Licence Office, Hackney Coach Office.
Penal:
gallows, jails/reformatories, (pictorial): [Gallows at Tyburn: unoccupied].
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, volunteer parade grounds, misc.: Guard Sta., Victualling Offices, 'Place where Soldiers are shot', at Tyburn.
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, orphanages
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Known copies of map:
Darlington & Howgego's no.103: Bishopsgate Institute [nfd]; BL Crace Coll. Port.III.107, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [FE84/83] [1755: DH103(1)]; [not found: DH103(2): Jeffreys/Sayer, 1775];
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink, ship yards, paper/print, rope walk, timber, misc: White Lead.
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
Inns of Court, insurance offices
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
Freemasons, learned societies, trade and livery company halls
Borders:
decorative
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits: This seems the most likely explanation of a distinctive type of ornament in Marylebone, e.g.
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Reference system:
squaring: Sheets of 'large plan'.
Ferries:
ferry
Cemeteries:
shown
Business & commercial:
South Seas Company
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
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
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