London-1800 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22419

Map Date:

11.3.1800

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top. VI.95

Town name:

Deptford, Greenwich, Chelsea, Fulham, Hammersmith, Islington, Kensington, Paddington, Stepney, Camberwell, Lambeth, Marylebone, London, Westminster, Southwark, Kingston on Thames

Map type:

Miscellaneous

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ320811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3179

Map title:

'Milne's plan of the cities of London and Westminster, circumadjacent towns and parishes &c, laid down from a trigonometrical survey taken in the years 1795-1799.'

Comments on map:

Included on account of its importance as a land-use map.

Scale:

1:31,680

Map-maker:

Thomas Milne, 7 New St, Knightsbridge, London [sv, eng, pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

103.0 x 53.5 [x 2: overall: map areas each 88.3 x 36.3].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

land-use

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some buildings emphasised, but none named.

Turnpikes:

shown

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

uncertain

Known copies of map:

Darlington & Howgego's no.221: BLML K.Top.6.95, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] (photos), Lambeth-Minet 2/1795-9/MF (AP 849) [DH221]; BOL (E)C17:70 London (1139), CUL Maps.bb.74.97.1, Camden 85.23 1799, Lambeth-Minet 2/1800/M315, Southwark Library Map Cabt 1, Maps 488, 489, and with duplicate maps, Tower Hamlets L.5750, Westminster Archives map Cabt A 044 [LTS 1976: DH221(i)]; London Metropolitan Archives open acess photocopy RM11 [photocopy].

Gardens:

market gardens, nurseries

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Relief:

prominent hills

Commons:

shown

Borders:

distance-graduated type: Elaborate border, with graduations originating at dome of St Paul's, but no grid on map face.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland: Various land-uses: arable, grass, hops.

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