London-1851
CBTM:
22211
Map Date:
[1851]
Repository reference:
BOL G.A. London 8o 84(3)
Town name:
Bedworth, London, Westminster, Southwark
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ 302805
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Comments on map:
In London made easy, London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1851, f.p. [1], 16, 38, 54, 70. Single lines for streets; buildings identified by numbers within squares. Very 'plain' effect, almost suggestive of very basic computer-generated mapping: just lines and text, with a few buildings shown by hatching.
Scale:
1:15,840*
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
32 x 16 [x 4], 13.5 x 10 [x 1]
Number of parts:
5
Road names:
important roads only
Building names:
royal palaces, important buildings only
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Welfare and charitable:
blind, hospitals, misc: Asylum, House of Occupation.
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges
Known copies of map:
BL 10350.b.22, BOL G.A.Lond.8o 84/3.
Railways:
passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls, theatres, etc, museums, ice-skating, art galleries, misc: Exhibition Building, Wyld's Globe.
Parkland:
botanic gardens, public parks, zoological gardens
Service and professional:
Inns of Court, Bank of England, insurance offices, newspaper offices: [Times Printing Of.].
Clubs and societies:
Conservative, Freemasons, trade and livery company halls, unspecified
Monuments:
Monuments
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Reference system:
squaring: About 1.0 ins, but variations in size horizontally and vertically: may be intended as 0.25-mile.
Business & commercial:
East India Company
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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