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London-1841

CBTM:
22185
Map Date:
1841
Repository reference:
BOL JJ. Maps 11
Town name:
Bath: Lyncombe, 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:
'Bauerkeller's new embossed map of London, 1841.'
Comments on map:
The 'embossed' effect is the raising in relief of the buildings. Wholly colour-printed, with street-names and other 'ordinary' text in blue. Highly photogenic. Scale is about 5.8 ins to 1 mile, with inset of Isle of Dogs, c.1:27,000, top right. Note on population, top left. Typgraphy looks 'foreign', e.g. open figure 4, and some misspelling, e.g. 'Marybonne'. Accompanying street-index is printed by Richard Watts, Crown Court, Temple Bar.
Scale:
1:10,800
Map-maker:
London & Paris: Bauerkeller & Co. [? author, ? pb]; Ackermann & Co., 96 Strand, London [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
114.7 x 67.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
boundaries: District-colouring.
Colouring:
boundaries, land-use, decorative, other: Districts various colours; ordinary text blue; other text reversed-out; border ochre-red; public buildings red; ordinary buildings and squaring reversed out.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
royal palaces, important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Turnpikes:
shown
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, quays, river stairs, wharfs
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Anglican are reversed-out cross on red.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, central government, Parliament
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, magazines/arsenals
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, mental, workhouses, misc: Royal Military Asylum.
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
bazaars, markets: [Horse Bazaar].
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, misc: Queens Bench, Fleet and Clink.
Known copies of map:
Darlington & Howgego no.377: BOL J.Maps 11, CUL Maps.18.G.33, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1841: [DH377(1)]; BL [1842: DH377(2)]; Bishopsgate Institute L.18 [1844: DH377(3)].
Industry:
engineering, oil/soap etc, rope walk, uncertain, misc: Manufactory; Cable factories, R. Mint, Vitriol Manufactory.
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Gardens:
nurseries
Leisure and entertainment:
museums, art galleries
Parkland:
public parks, zoological gardens
Service and professional:
banks, Inns of Court
Waterbodies:
shown
Post and telegraphs:
flagstaff, post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Reference system:
squaring: 1.0-mile.
Cemeteries:
shown
Stated measuerments:
other: Mileages from London Bridge in river.
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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