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London-1797

CBTM:
18728
Map Date:
1797
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.27.B.73
Town name:
London, Westminster and Southwark
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ320811
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'London and Westminster. 1797.'
Comments on map:
Insets of enlargement of the Rules of Fleet Prison, and 'Plan of the proposed London wet docks 1797'. Below map is index to 300 streets.
Scale:
1:15,840
Map-maker:
E. Mogg [eng], John Fairbairn, 146 Minories [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
63.8 x 43.3
Number of parts:
3
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, river stairs
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs, water works
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, central government
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, town walls
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, orphanages, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds, misc: Archery Ground.
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, misc: [City of London]; Rules of the Fleet and Kings Bench Prisons (with note on the Fleet inset that public houses are within the rules, and on the Kings Bench part of the main map that public houses 'form no part of the Rules').
Known copies of map:
DH203: BLML Maps 199.a.17 [1795: DH203(1)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1796: DH203(2)]; BL, CUL Maps.d.17.G.6, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1797: DH203(3)]; Tower Hamlets maps 1747, 1747a [1797/1983: Guildhall Library]; CUL Maps.c.72.79.1 [1798: ?not DH]; RGS Eng & Wales S.S.462 [Guildhall fac 4, 1975; ex DH203(3)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1800: DH203(4)]; BOL C17:70 london f.38, CUL Maps.aa.71.80.1, LM, Wes.P.L. [1801: DH203(5)]; BLML Maps 30.a.26, BLML K.Top.20.55, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1802, ed.7: DH203(6)]; GL [1803: DH203(6a)]; BL, Tower Hamlets map 116 [1806: DH203(7)]; BOL (E)C17:70 London (1173), GL [1974 or 1977 facsim from (3): GL no.4].
Industry:
textiles: [Tenters].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, foreshore material specified: [Usual 'Sand Bank'].
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
Inns of Court
Waterbodies:
shown
Commons:
shown
Symbolic elements:
Old Father Thames [one presumes], reposing on jar pouring water. [The same appears on the slipcase, but reversed.]
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Reference system:
squaring: Rectangles, with letters on map face, rather than squares.
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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