London-1848
CBTM:
19544
Map Date:
1.9.1848
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 3480 (131)
Town name:
Deptford, Greenwich, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Islington, Kensington, 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 3179
Map title:
'Davies's map of the British metropolis containing the boundaries of the boroughs the county court districts & the sewers districts. Also the railroads & stations, cemeteries, landing piers on river, the new roads, streets & all modern improvements. From authentic documents and actual survey.'
Scale:
1:21,120
Map-maker:
B.R. Davies, 16 Great George St, Euston Square [eng], Letts, Son & Steer, 8 Royal Exchange, John Wade, 59 High Holborn [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
87.7 x 65.8
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
general legend: Lists boroughs, sewer districts and metropolitan county court districts.
Colouring:
boundaries: This copy also colours main roads, water, parks, cemeteries (yellow) and the border.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
royal palaces, partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Including projected buildings, without infill.
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, piers, river stairs, wharfs, misc: Coal Depot; stairs not numerous.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, water works
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established predominates: Many emphasised but not described in more built-up part.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, police, central government
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, mental, orphanages, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, misc: County court and sewer districts.
Known copies of map:
Darlington & Howgego's nos 404 and 410. DH404: GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1847: DH404(1)]; GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Kensington Library, Tower Hamlets library map 434, Westminster Archives Map Cabt C [1848: DH404(2)]; BL, CUL Maps.C.71.84.2 [reprinted for Bradshaw's Guide], Lambeth-Minet 2/1849/MF (AP 861), Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 396 [1849: DH404(3)]; BL PP.2505.yb/6, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1850: DH404(4)]; BLML Maps 3480(19), Maps 3485(228), CUL Maps.71.85.1, BL PP.2505.yb/6, BOL C17:70 London (25), London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1851: DH404(add.1)]; BOL G1/c17.7 [1851/1968: pl 6 in Atlas of London and the London Region, pub Pergamon]; BL [1852: DH404(add.2)]; GL, Lambeth-Minet 2/1853/MF [1853: DH404(add.3)]; Bishopsgate Institute L.18, CUL Maps.71.85.5, Kensington Library, Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 634 [DH404(add.4)]; Bishopsgate Institute L.18 [Schlesinger Weiss & Co: patent indicator map: PO Directory with 58 pp index], CUL Maps.71.85.8, GL, Camden folded map M271C; Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 354 [1855: DH404(add.5)]; CUL Maps.18.G.60 [1856: DH404(add.5+); Bishopsgate Institute L.18, CUL Maps.c.71.85.9, GL, CUL Maps.71.85.4, Warwickshire Record Office CR 229/220/2 [1857: DH404(add.6)]; GL [1862: DH404(add.7)]; BL, GL [1865: DH404(add.8)]; Bishopsgate Institute L.18 [1890: ?H.61(33)]. DH410: Bishopsgate Institute L.18, BLML Maps 3480(131), Maps 3485(8), Maps 15.b.16, Maps 15.b.19, CUL Maps.c.18.G.43, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1:9:1848: DH410(1)]; Westminster Archives Ashbridge 061 [1848, pub G .Booth: not listed in DH: may duplicate a 'c.1825' map attributed to Davies]; BLML Maps 3485(8) [20:11:48: DH410(2)]. H.12: GL [1851: H.12(1)]; CUL Maps.c.71.85.14, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], LM [in Adam's pocket guide book] [1851: with 3 vignettes: H.12(2)]; BOL G.A.Lond.8o 75 [1851: in Bradshaw's Strangers and visitors guide, pub W.J. Adams: H.12(2)]; BL [1853.c: H.12(3)]; IHR, Kensington Library, IPL(F) [1854: H.12(4)]; BL 10350.a.32, BOL G.A.London 8o 56, GL [1857, in Bradshaw's L gde, pb W.J. Adams, also used in 1859+1862 edns: H.12(5)], BOL G.A.London 8o 58 [1859: H.12(5)], BOL G.A.London 8o 57 [1860.c: H.12(5)], BOL G.A.London 8o 57 [1861: H.12(5)], BOL G.A. Lond. 8o 60 [1862: H.12(5)]; BOL G.A.London c.33a, CUL Eb.19.27,a [1856: in T.H. Shepherd, The world's metropolis, or mighty London].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, chemicals, engineering, food/drink, lime/cement, metallurgical processing, ship yards, rope walk, furniture/pottery: Cable Works, Pearl Ash Works.
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations: Includes Great Northern Railway and North London Railway, under construction.
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Parkland:
botanic gardens, public parks, private parks and ornamental ground, zoological gardens
Service and professional:
banks
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
slopes shown
Borders:
decorative
Cemeteries:
shown
Walls, embankments, etc:
Proposed embankment Act passed 1846 [by Chelsea Hospital and Grosvenor Canal mouth].
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Ordnance Survey's
1868-1876
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
1894-7
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
1868-1876
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
1894-7
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
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
1848-51
1:1056
1:5280
1:10,560
Skeleton survey
1848-51
1:1056
1:5280
1:10,560
Skeleton survey
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