London-1853 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19550

Map Date:

1853

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3480 (139)

Town name:

Amersham, London, Westminster, Southwark

Map type:

Highways

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ320811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'Plan of London in the year 1766 shewing public works exected buildings erected & street improvements effected out of funds aided by Coal Duties received by the Corporation of London as trustees or otherwise up to and including the year 1852'.

Comments on map:

Clean-cut, very much more 1852-3 than 1766. Source? Unusual: not listed in Hyde. The improvements show up well in carmine.

Scale:

1:3300*

Map-maker:

Architects Office, Guildhall [? author], Albert Waterlow, 65-68 London Wall [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

178.0 x 111.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

boundaries, other: 'Improvements effected'.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, central government

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, mental

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough: [City of London].

Known copies of map:

[This is in neither Darlington & Howgego, nor in Ralph Hyde.] BLML Maps 3480(139).

Waterbodies:

shown

Borders:

decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Prince of Wales plumes in north pointer.

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