London-1811 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19528

Map Date:

1811

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 24.a.60

Town name:

Deptford, Greenwich, 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 and correct plan of London, Westminster and Southwark, exhibiting the various improvements, to the year 1811.' 'The Isle of Dogs with the East India and the West India Docks, Limehouse, Poplar, Blackwall, Deptford, Greenwich &c, &c.'

Scale:

1:16,896

Map-maker:

R. Rowe, 19 Bedford St, Bedford Row [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

76.7 x 39.5 [overall: main map 57 x 30, India Docks extension 20 x 39.5; L-shaped].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: Conventions within docks, including warehouses.

Colouring:

boundaries: This one also colours main roads, water and parks.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, river stairs

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs

Places of Worship:

incomplete Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, central government

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, mental, orphanages

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, misc: [City of London], Kings Bench.

Known copies of map:

DH232: BL Crace Port.VI,187, [?BL M.T.7.a.1(4)], Westminster Archives Ashbridge Box 1 [1804: DH232(1)]; GL, Bishopsgate Institute L.18 [1808: DH232(1b)]; PC, Tower Hamlets library map 307 [1809: DHJ232(1c)]; BLML Maps 24.a.60, Kensington Library [1811: DH232(2)]; CUL Maps.d.18.G.55, RGS Eng & Wales S.611 [1812: DH232(2a)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1813: DH232(3)]; PC [1814, ed 2: DH232(3+)]; GL [1815, ed.2: DH232(3a)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1817, ed.2: DH232(4)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1818, ed.2: DH232(5)]; BLML Maps 3480(95), London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1819, ed.2: DH232(6)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Kensington Library, Westminster Archives L.13(1820) [DH232(7)];

Industry:

ship yards

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks, Inns of Court

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Tattersalls].

Waterbodies:

shown

Monuments:

obelisks

Reference system:

squaring

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown

Estate boundary ownership:

fragmentary: [Limits of East and West India Docks].

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

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