London-1763 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18690

Map Date:

1763

Repository reference:

BLML Maps *3479(148)

Town name:

Bromley, Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, Brentford, Harrow, London, Westminster, Southwark, Kingston

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ320811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3083

Map title:

'The environs of London reduced from an actual survey in 16 sheets by the late John Rocque, Topographer to His Majesty, with new improvements to the year 1763.'

Comments on map:

Scales of chains, feet, English miles and 'Demie Lieiie Parisienne'.

Scale:

1:24,000

Map-maker:

John Rocque [sv], Mary Ann Rocque (?), Carington Bowles & Robert Sayer [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

128.5 x 88.5 [on 4 plates: average size of plates 64 x 44 +].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

royal palaces, important buildings only: Some inns of court and royal palaces

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Usual Rocque urban-stipple-only style.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

river stairs: Named.

Sanitary and utility information:

water works

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

county

Known copies of map:

DH124: CUL Atlas.2.76.10, GL [1763: DH124(1)]; GL [1763/4: DH124(1a)]; BLML Maps 3479(148), Westminster Archives Ashbridge 61 ['[1764]': DH124(1)?]; [1769.c, Bowles/Sayer: DH124(2)].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, lime/cement

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

Inns of Court: Not complete.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Round dedication, title and scales.

Relief:

prominent hills

Commons:

shown

Borders:

decorative

Symbolic elements:

In dedicatory cartouche: various musical instruments, globe, books, pens; cornucopia and tree in title.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Shipping in river below London Bridge.

Arms and heraldry:

dedicee of map, royal arms, municipal: [In border: London (top), Westminster (left), Southwark (right)].

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Pictorial milestones along main roads.

Dedicee of map:

Rt Hon George Montague, Earl of Cardigan, Baron Brudenell, &c.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1864-5

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1861

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-5

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1864

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1865-6

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1868-1876

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-7

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1866-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1848-51

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey