London-1771 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23253

Map Date:

1771

Repository reference:

Guildhall Library, St Pauls Collection 4/33

Town name:

Boscastle, 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, and borough of Southwark 1771.'

Comments on map:

Index to churches and notable buildings to right, within neatline, and below, outside it. 'No.I', top right, outside neat line, as though a book illustration.

Scale:

1:21,120

Map-maker:

J. Andrews [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

36.3 x 17.0 [map: 40.7 x 18.8 overall; plate 41.2 x 19.3].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

important roads only

Building names:

royal palaces

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, building infill omitted, public buildings emphasised

Sanitary and utility information:

water works: New River Hd.

Places of Worship:

incompletely shown

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, central government

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, mental

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Known copies of map:

Darlington & Howgego's no.152: BLML Maps C.26.a.23 [in John Andrews, A collection of plans of the capital cities of Europe, London: Andrews, 1771, f.p.1], GL St Pauls Colln 4:33 k127551x, RGS, Tower Hamlets map 93.

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, museums

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

Inns of Court, Bank of England

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Rococco; apparently bell at top, with 'sunburst' effect behind.

Monuments:

Monuments

Symbolic elements:

Bell, sunburst: surround cartouche.

Business & commercial:

East India Company

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