London-1797
CBTM:
18730
Map Date:
2.1.1797
Repository reference:
BLML Maps *3480 (72)
Town name:
Greenwich, Chelsea, Islington, Kensington, Lambeth, Marylebone, 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:
'A new plan of London, XXIX miles in circumfrence.'
Comments on map:
Looks rather similar to Exeter 18720, etc, but on the cheap: cf lack of parish boundaries, e.g.
Scale:
1:10,080
Map-maker:
J. Stockdale, Piccadilly [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
142.0 x 101.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
royal palaces, important buildings only, outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills: By annotation, on river at Battersea.
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, river stairs: [Includes Timber Dock].
Sanitary and utility information:
conduits, reservoirs, water works, misc: [Conduit at Bayswater is pictorial], Air Pipe [pictorial].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, internal revenue
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
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:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc, areas named (no boundaries shown): City and Kings Bench prison limits; suburban parishes named, but no boundaries.
Known copies of map:
DH213: BLML Maps 3480(72), 3480(295), BOL (E)C17:70 London (292), CUL Maps.R.a.26, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Southwark Local studies Library, Map 409 [SW sheet only], Tower Hamlets map 383, Westminster Archives Ashbridge Box 1 [Marylebone portion] [1797: DH213(1)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Lambeth-Minet 2/c.1809/MF (AP 851) [?1809: DH213(1a)]; CUL Maps.b.71.79.1 [?1811]; BLML Maps 3480(94) [1817: DH213(2)]; London Metropolitan Archives open acess photocopy RM10 [photocopy].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, oil/soap etc, rope walk, misc: Hemp Factory, White Lead.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, foreshore material specified: [The usual sandbank].
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, museums, art galleries: [Montagu House or British Museum].
Parkland:
public parks, private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks, Inns of Court, insurance offices
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary for location purposes
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
trade and livery company halls
Commons:
shown
Borders:
distance-graduated type
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Reference system:
C
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
cow-keeping, pounds/pinfolds: [Suburban cow houses].
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Pictorial milestones.
Stated measuerments:
soundings, other: Soundings in river below the Tower; lengths of Blackfriars and London, but not Westminster, 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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