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London-1792

CBTM:
18719
Map Date:
2.1.1792
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 3485(88)
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 pocket plan of the cities of London and Westminster with the borough of Southwark; comprehending their outskirts and extent of the Thames from Chelsea to Deptford. Exhibiting also the new buildings, roads, and other alterations to the year 1792.'
Comments on map:
Below map is reference to 'the churches and principal buildings'.
Scale:
1:15,840
Map-maker:
Carington Bowles, 69 St Pauls Churchyard, London [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
63.2 x 42.8
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only, royal palaces
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills, windmills: [Tide Mills].
Water transport infrastructure:
river stairs
Sanitary and utility information:
water works
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, volunteer parade grounds
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, mental, workhouses
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
DH181: New pocket plan ['one-sheet plan' from 1795]: Westminster Archives Ashbridge Box 1 [1786: DH181(1)]; CUL Maps.D.71.78.4, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1788: DH181(2)]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 1, Map 228 [1789: DH181(3)]; Camden [Camden [ex St Pancras]] London Map Cabinet [1791: DH181(4)]; British Library Maps 3485(88) [with postal deliveries), Lambeth-Minet 2/1792/MF (AP 847) [1792: DH181(5)]; Bishopsgate Institute L.18, GL [1793: DH181(6)]; GL, Kensington Library, RGS Eng & Wales S/S 133 [1795: DH181(7)]; Westminster Archives Ashbridge Box 1PC [1796: DH181(7a)]; GL, Camden folded maps M264C, Westminster Archives Ashbridge 061 [Marylebone portion] [1800: DH181(8)]; BL K.Top. 1 Tab.22, Kensington Library [1801: DH181(9)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1803, 15 x 43 cm extension on east: DH181(10)]; GL [1804: DH181(10a)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1805: DH181(10b)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1806, no extension: DH181(11)]; British Library Maps 3480(84), Kensington Library [1808: DH181(12)]; 1809 [1809: DH181(12a)]; Bodleian Library C17:70 London e.56, CUL Maps.c.18.G.57, RICS [1811: DH181(13]; Bishopsgate Institute L.18, Kensington Library [1814: DH181(14)]; CUL Maps.d.18.G.104 [1819: pub Bowles & Carver: DH181(?)].
Industry:
textiles: [Tenters].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, foreshore material specified: [Sandbank east of Waterloo Bridge site].
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
etc, theatres
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground, public parks: Now includes Vauxhall Gardens.
Service and professional:
Inns of Court
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Symbolic elements:
Surveyors, with chain, alidade and giant ruler and dividers, around title. [Used on dustwrapper of Darlington & Howgego.]
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Reference system:
squaring: St Pauls at intersection: centred, but to north of centre of map.
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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