London-1825 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20978

Map Date:

1825

Repository reference:

Southwark Local Studies Library, Map Cabinet 1, Map 201

Town name:

Deptford, Greenwich, Islington, Stepney, 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:

'Laurie's new plan of London and its environs, comprising the new buildings and recent improvements. Being an original survey by John Outhett. 1825.'

Comments on map:

This is a forerunner of the 1837 survey [Exeter 19449], and is noted as published 1st January 1821, 'Improved Edition: 1825'.

Scale:

1:15,480

Map-maker:

John Outhett [sv], Richd Holmes Laurie, Chartseller to the Admiralty, &c. &c. 53 Fleet St, London [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

80.3 x 63.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only, royal palaces, important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: City churches, etc, emphasised but not named; churches seem to be black, other public buildings hatched.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills, (symbol): ['Ox' type].

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, naval dockyards, river stairs, wharfs

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits, gas works, reservoirs, water works, misc: Some named wells.

Places of Worship:

principal Anglican/established only, misc: A few non-Anglican.

Public buildings:

customs, central government, internal revenue

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, orphanages, workhouses, misc: Royal Military Asylum, Philanthropc Institutn.

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges, observatories: Including the Westminster Scholars Play Ground; [Royal Observatory].

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, fairgrounds, markets: [Bow Fair Field].

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

misc: Exhibition of Fruit Trees.

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, liberty, misc: [City of London, City & liberties of Westminster, Borough of Southwark], Kings Bench & Fleet Prisions, Clink Liberty; fragmentary parish boundaries in unbuilt-up parts.

Known copies of map:

DH283: CUL Maps.c.71.82.16, MWrBd [1820.c: DH283(1)]; BLML Maps 3480(97), BOL (E)C17:70 London (552), GL [1821: DH283(2)]; GL [1823, DH283(2a)]; Bishopsgate Institute L.18, BOL J.Maps 16, CUL Maps.c.71.82.19, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] ['1823-4', DH283(3)]; GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Southwark Library Map Cabinet 1, Map 201 [1825: DH283(4)]; PC [1828: DH283(4a)]; Lambeth-Minet 2/1828-9/M229 [1828, 1829: DH283(4b)]; Kensington Library [1830: DH283(5)]; GL, Southwark Library Map Cabt 1, Map 64 [1831: DH283(6)]; Southwark Library --- [DH283(new:6-7)]; GL [1836: DH283(7)].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, chemicals, distilling, engineering, food/drink, ship yards, oil/soap etc, paper/print, rope walk, textiles, misc: Royal Mint, Floor Cloth Manufy, White Lead Works, Patent Shot Many., Pearl Ash Manufactory, Pot Ash Many.; industry more remarkable for variety than for quantity.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified: [The Sand Bank].

Gardens:

nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

riding schools, museums, baths/spa: [Riding House].

Parkland:

botanic gardens, private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

Inns of Court, Bank of England

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

shown partially: [Hampstead, Greenwich].

Commons:

shown

Borders:

distance-graduated type: Furlong divisions, but 0.25-mile graduation.

Monuments:

obelisks, statues

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Reference system:

squaring: 1-mile: origin at St Pauls.

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict industry: Old Manufacty.

Retail activity:

limited range: Tattersalls.

Geodetic notes:

Below title is '*** This survey includes an extent of 7 3/4 miles east and west, and 6 miles north and south. It is founded on the Trigonometric Operations of the late Genl. Roy, combined with a New Series of 52 Stations, on elevated situations, from which the positions of upwards of 450 steeples, domes, turrets, vanes, and other conspicuous objects, within the limits of the plan, have been determined by means of more than 5000 angles.'

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Milestones [pictorial, with distances].

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

out-of-town inns only, tea-gardens

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Stated measuerments:

other: Note on Isle of Dogs that is seven feet below high water mark.

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