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London-1790

CBTM:
18723
Map Date:
3.6.1790
Repository reference:
BLML Maps *3480 (66)
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 new plan of London, Westminster and Southwark, with their environs to the extent of three miles round St Pauls'.
Comments on map:
Very similar to Exeter 18720. Circular: title round border; ovals have usual references to churches and public buildings. Smaller circles advertise Bowles's New London Guide (an alphabetical gazetteer) and his Hackney Coach Directory (50,000 fares, also water fares).
Scale:
1:10,080
Map-maker:
Carington Bowles, 69 St Pauls Church Yard [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
101.3 x 103.0 [map area is about 98 cm in diameter].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
royal palaces, outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills, watermills: [Tide Mills].
Water transport infrastructure:
river stairs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, volunteer parade grounds
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, mental, orphanages, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
cock-fighting, sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, Parish: [City of London].
Known copies of map:
DH191: BLML Maps 3480(66), GL [1790: DH191(1); BL [?3480(67)] [1791: DH191(2)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1793: DH191(3)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1796.c: DH191(4)]; BLML Maps 3480(255), London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1806.c: DH191(5)].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, rope walk, misc: Hemp Factory, White Lead.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, foreshore material specified: [The sandbank below site of Waterloo Bridge].
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, museums: [Montagu House or British Museum].
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
Inns of Court
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
trade and livery company halls
Relief:
prominent hills
Commons:
shown
Reference system:
squaring: 1-mile squares, with origin at St Pauls, but no letters or numbers for use as referencing.
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
cow-keeping, pounds/pinfolds: [Suburban cow houses].
Cemeteries:
shown
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Milestones [pictorial], pictorial signpost at Newington Butts, pictorial obelisk to north-west thereof.
Dedicee of map:
Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of City of London.
Stated measuerments:
other: Lengths of bridges.
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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