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London-1780

CBTM:
18483
Map Date:
1780
Repository reference:
[University of Exeter collection]
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:
'Bowles's reduced new pocket plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, with the Borough of Southwark, exhibiting the New Buildings to the Year 1791.'
Scale:
1:15,840
Map-maker:
J. Ellis, Clerkenwell, London [eng], Carington Bowles, 69 St Pauls Churchyard [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
54.6 x 38.1
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
royal palaces
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Mills:
windmills
Water transport infrastructure:
river stairs
Sanitary and utility information:
pumping stations, water works: At Chelsea: Fire Engine is a steam pumping engine: cf pictures in BLML K.Top.28.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
central government, College of Heralds, internal revenue, town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, workhouses
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges, schools: [Physicians' College].
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough: [City limits: usual stipple-hatched method].
Known copies of map:
DH.158a. PC [1773: DH158a(1)]; CUL Maps.c..71.11.1 [1775: ? not in DH]; CUL Maps.d.17.G.11, GL, Tower Hamlets map 98 [1777: DH158a(1a)]; BLML K.Top.20.47.1, GL [1780: DH158a(2)]; Bodleian Library C17:70 London c.6 [1780/1972: Guildhall Library copy annotated with 'Disposition of the Troops and Patrols in and adjoining to London during the late Riots the beginning of June 1780.' [DH158a(2)], in Phillippa Glanville, London in Maps, London: The Connoisseur, 1972]; Bodleian Library C17:70 London f.31, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Kensington Library [1781: DH158a(3)]; LM [1782: DH158a(4)]; BL [1783: DH158a(5)]; PC [1784: DH158a(6)]; BL K.Top.20.48.5.Tab.End [1787: DH158a(6a)]; PC [1788: DH158a(6b)]; Kensington Library [1789: DH158a(7)]; Swk LSL S.C. 912, 'reserve stock' [1790: DH158a(new:7-8)]; Hackney Archives V108(S) [1790: ? this]; British Library Maps 3480 (67), GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1791: DH158a(8)]; GL [1792: DH158a(8a)]; GL [1795: DH158a(8b)]; British Library Maps 27.a.48 [1796: DH158a(9)]; GL, Kensington Library. [1797: DH158a(10)]; GL [1798: DH158a(10a)]; Westminster Archives Box 66 no.8; CUL Maps.d.17.G.9 [1799: DH158a(11)].
Industry:
rope walk, textiles: [Tenters].
Leisure and entertainment:
etc, theatres
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
Bank of England
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
learned societies
Commons:
shown
Monuments:
Monuments
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Reference system:
squaring
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Hicks Hall.
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
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