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London-1799

CBTM:
18655
Map Date:
1799
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 33.e.24
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:
'Plan of the cities of London & Westminster with the borough of Southwark, including their adjacent suburbs, in which every dwelling house is described and numbered, Surveyed and first published by Richard Horwood MDCCXCIX.'
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
Richard Horwood [sv].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
52 x 58 [x 40] [approximate mean size of uncropped sections].
Number of parts:
40
Legends:
Buildings, boundaries: Building infills, parish boundaries, inns of court.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, n, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, naval dockyards, river stairs, wharfs: [Includes dry dock, docks with ships in plan; not many river stairs].
Sanitary and utility information:
fire stations, reservoirs, water works: [Phoenix Fire Engine [in Cockspur St]].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, central government
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, misc.: Victualling Office.
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, workhouses: Chelsea Hospital shown with detailed numbered references.
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets: Pens shown in Smithfield, but not described.
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
extra-parochial, Parish: [Not in City of London].
Known copies of map:
DH200. BLML Maps 3495(113) [prospectus & specimen only, 1790]; BLML Maps 3495(22), CUL Atlas.1.79.3 [prospectus & specimen only, 1792]; TNA [PRO] MR 1/603; RGS 1.C.85, 1.C.208; RGS Eng & Wales S.21 [?8 sheets only]; BLML Maps 148.e.7, Maps 5.d.8, Maps 2.e.4, Maps 32.e.1, BL 1.Tab.22, BOL C17:40 a.1, C17:40 a.2, Gough Maps 21 Fol 30 [3B, 4B only], Gough Maps 41D, Fol 34-41 [A1-4, B1-4], CUL Atlas.1.79.3, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Bishopsgate Institute FFL.18, East Sussex Record Office Acc.3412/3/706, Acc.5179/26, Tower Hamlets map 315 [1792-9: DH200(1)]; CUL Atlas.2.79.7 [another state]; London Metropolitan Archives open acess photocopy RM9 [photocopy, 1790s]; BL 6.Tab.1, GL, Lambeth-Minet 2/1807/M145 (AP 574), Senate Ho [Ed 2, 1807: DH200(2)]; GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [fragmentary] [1813, ed 3: DH200(3)]; London Metropolitan Archives Acc.2558/MW/C/31/602 [1813: Southwark, Bermondsey & Vauxhall 'water plan': is the southern and south-eastern part of Horwood: specifically watery qualities are not apparent]; BLML Maps 33.e.24, CUL: Atlas.1.81.8, GL(photo), London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1819, ed 4: DH200(4)]; London Metropolitan Archives open acess photocopy RM12 [photocopy, 1819]; Westminster Archives Ashbridge O.S. ('in basement with newspapers'); BOL G.A.Westminster c.8 [1923-4: London Topographical Society: Westminster part only: in Views of Westminster by William Capon 1757-1827]; BLML Maps 3480(458), BOL (E) C17:70 London (658), CUL Atlas.1.96.28, Camden 85.23 1799, Lambeth-Minet 2/1792-99/M362 (AP 653-656)Tower Hamlets maps 1375-1410, Westminster Archives Map Cabt A, 044 [26 sheets], Map Cabt C (London) [6 local sheets] [London Topographical Society /James Howgego, 1966]; RGS 14.B.340 [Japanese reissue, 1995, of Horwood and Ordnance Survey 1:2500 of 1894-7]; Westminster Archives Ashbridge 061 [Marylebone portion only]; Westminster Archives Map Cabt A.062 [1819, DH200(4): Marylebone sheets only, with water pipes]; [Elizabeth Baigent: Richard Horwood's map of London: 18th century cartography & the Society of Arts: RSA Journal 142 (12:94), 49-51; ibid in London Topographical Society Newsletter no.40, 1995, 8-10; Paul Laxton, Richard Horwood's plan of London: a guide to editions and variants 1792-1819, London Topographical Society Record XXVI (1990), 214-63.]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 1, Maps 46-56 [London Topographical Society 1905]; BOL G.A.Lond.c.296 = G1/C17.5, CUL Atlas.5.98.118, Camden 77.7, Southwark Library SC.912.Lax (1 in lib, 1 in RS) [1792-9/1813/1985: A-Z of Regency London, ed. Paul Laxton, pb Lympne: Harry Margary].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, chemicals, engineering, food/drink, metallurgical processing, paper/print, rope walk, textiles, warehousing, timber, misc: Royal Mint [with building functions indicated], Cooperage, Iron Liquor Manufactory (in Southwark), Sailcloth, Glue, Telegraph works, Repository.
Gardens:
shown, nurseries
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Parkland:
botanic gardens, private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
Inns of Court, Bank of England
Landowners and occupiers:
industrial owners: [Brewery owners or occupiers].
Waterbodies:
shown
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Streets laid out but not built up.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
cow-keeping: [Cow Yard].
Cemeteries:
shown
Miscellaneous street furniture:
The Obelisk [near Bethlem Hospital], Standard [pictorial: in Blackam St, Southwark], Mile Stones.
Dedicee of map:
Trustees and Directors of the Phoenix Fire Office.
Tenement boundaries group:
generalised/schematic
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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