London-1812 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18718

Map Date:

1.5.1812

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3480(88)

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:

'Langley & Belch's new map of London.'

Comments on map:

Cheap-and-cheerful look to map. Legend advertises the same publisher's 'letter press book'.

Scale:

1:17,280

Map-maker:

Langley & Belch, 173 High St, Borough, London [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

76.2 x 51.9

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

general legend

Colouring:

boundaries, other: 'Projected works not completed' (yellow); index letters on map face; squares, dock quays and similar coloured orange: lurid. Main roads lighter orange.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

royal palaces, outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills: [Tide Mill, at Nine Elms].

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

river stairs

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs, water works, misc: Air Pipe [near New River].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, volunteer parade grounds

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, mental, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds, shooting grounds: [Target Ground, Lords Cricket Gr].

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

county, borough, liberty, misc: [City of London, liberties of Westminster, borough of Southwark], Kings Bench and Fleet Prisons.

Known copies of map:

DH256: Bishopsgate Institute L.18 (framed: 801) [also the 1812 Companion, L.18], BLML Maps 3480(88) [companion at Maps 32.aa.35], BOL (E)C17:70 London (22), Douce Prints a.53(9), CUL Maps.c.71.81.9, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Westminster Archives Ashbridge Box II (12) [1812: DH256(1)]; GL [1812+: DH256(1+)]; Hackney Archives (Map Cabinet) [1812/?: Cotswold Collotype]; BL, BOL (E)C17:70 London (1150), CUL Maps.19.G.264, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Camden 85.23 1812, Lambeth-Minet 2/1812/MF (AP 852), RGS Eng & Wales S.381, Tower Hamlets map 1775, 1807, 1807A, Westminster Archives Map Cabt C [LTS 114 (1971): DH256(i), from DH256(1)]; Swk LSL Map Cabt 1, Map 269 [?DH256(1)]; BLML Maps 3480(92), Bishopsgate Institute L.18, BOL C17:70 London e.74, CUL Maps.c.71.81.2, [1816: DH256(2)]; GL, Kensington Library [1818: DH256(3)]; GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Kensington Library, Lambeth-Minet 2/1820/M256 (AP 588) [1820: DH256(4)]; Westminster Archives Ashbridge Box II (15) [1823: DH256(4a)]; Kensington Library [1826: DH256(5)]; Tower Hamlets map 384 [1828.c: DH256(6)]; Tower Hamlets library map 384 ['c.1830'].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, lime/cement, metallurgical processing, oil/soap etc, rope walk, misc: Wire, Patent Cable, Pearl Ash.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore: [East of [Waterloo] bridge only].

Gardens:

nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

24 views in top and bottom borders.

Commons:

shown

Borders:

distance-graduated type: Border has half-mile graduations.

Reference system:

squaring

Cemeteries:

shown

Stated measuerments:

other: Lengths of bridges, including proposed ones; note on Isle of Dogs that is seven feet below high water.

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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