London-1793
CBTM:
18727
Map Date:
1793
Repository reference:
BLML Maps *3480 (282)
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:
'Cary's new pocket plan of London, Westminster and Southwark: with all the adjacent buildings in St George's Fields &c.&c. to which are annexed (from authority) the exact boundary of the rules of the King's Bench Prison, the situation of the Receiving Houses of the General Post Offices; references to the public buildings &c. also a correct list of upwards of 350 hackney coach fares.'
Comments on map:
Long lists of penny post receiving houses and hackney coach fares below map.
Scale:
1:15,840
Map-maker:
J. Cary, 131 Strand [eng, pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
59.0 x 40.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
boundaries
Colouring:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Turnpikes:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
river stairs
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
Y
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, mental, orphanages, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, misc: [City of London], King's Bench Prison limits.
Known copies of map:
DH192: PC [1:11:89: DH192( )]; BL, CUL Maps.D.71.79.1, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Kensington Library [1790: DH192(1)]; GL [1790, 188 Strand: DH192(1a)]; RGS Eng & Wales S/S 24 [1791: DH192(1b)]; BLML Maps 3480(89) (with foreign letter walks) [1792: DH192(2)]; BLML Maps 3480(282), Southwark Library Map Cabt 1, Map 259 [1793: DH192(3)]; CUL Maps.D.71.79.3, Westminster Archives Ashridge Box 1 [1794: DH192(?3-4)]; CUL Maps.D.71.79.4 [1795: DH192(4)]; BLML Maps 3480(414), GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1796: DH192(5)]; BOL (E)C17:70 London (483), Lambeth-Minet 2/1800/M150 (AP 573) [1800: DH192(6)]; BLML Maps 3480(96), Bishopsgate Institute L.18, RGS Eng & Wales S/S 24 [1801: DH192(7)]; BOL J.Maps 252, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Lambeth-Minet 2/1803/M341, RGS Eng & Wales S/S 24 [1803: DH192(8)]; CUL Maps.D.71.80.1 [1805 [DH192(9)]; Kensington Library [1806: DH192(10)]; PC [1808: DH192(10a); Berm.P.L., CUL Maps .c.71.80.9 [11th ed] [1809: DH192(11)]; RGS Eng & Wales S/S 24 [1810: DH192(11a)]; Kensington Library, Southwark Library Map Cabt 1, Map 600 [1811, DH192(12)]; Bishopsgate Institute, BLML Maps 3480(448); CUL Maps.D.71.81.2 [1813: DH192(13)]; CUL Maps.d.18.G.105, GL [1819: DH192(14)]; CUL [1825: DH192(15)]; LM [1818: DH192(16)]; BOL J.Maps 145, LM, RGS Eng & Wales S/S 24 [1830: DH192(17)]; RGS Eng & Wales S/S 24 [1836: DH192(18)] [1810
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks, insurance offices
Waterbodies:
shown
Commons:
shown
Post and telegraphs:
post offices: Listed below map area.
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
cow-keeping: [Suburban cow houses].
Cemeteries:
shown
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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