London-1760 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22850

Map Date:

1760

Repository reference:

Westminster Archives L.13 (1760)

Town name:

Blandford Forum, 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 London, Westminster and Southwark. With ye new buildings to ye year 1760. Not extant in any other map'.

Comments on map:

This is a similar down-market job to Exeter 22849; tables of hackney coach rates, top right and right, of watermen's rates, bottom centre, and of city wards, bottom left.

Scale:

1:14,080*

Map-maker:

Robert Sayer, Golden Buck, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet St, London [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

50.3 x 26.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

royal palaces, important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Stipple in city and liberties, hatched elsewhere.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, river stairs, wharfs

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits, reservoirs, water works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

central government, misc: Ld Mayrs. Banqueting House.

Defence and military:

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

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Ward: [City of London].

Known copies of map:

Darlington & Howgego's no.113a: Westminster Archives L.13(1760) [DH113a].

Industry:

food/drink, textiles, timber: [Tenters suggest cloth-making].

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

Inns of Court

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Ordinary sub-rococco: cut into by map detail.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Ld Mayors Dogg H.

Ferries:

ferry

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Cemeteries:

shown

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