London-1854 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19549

Map Date:

1854

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 28.BB.22

Town name:

Lambeth, 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:

'Collins' illustrated atlas of London, with 7000 references, in 36 plates of the principal routes between St Paul's and the suburbs, from a survey made expressly for this work, by R. Jarman Esq.'

Comments on map:

Title page not dated; BM RD is 18 Aug 1858, introduction is dated 1 June 1854. It opens: 'If the reader has ever seen an unfortunate stranger in one of our busy thoroughfares examining, almost hopelessly, the square yard of paper, with its complicated network of streets and houses, which (if we except the ''River Thames'', lying like a large eel on its surface,) is the principal idea to be gathered at the moment from the ''Map of London'' before him,

Scale:

1:15,840*

Map-maker:

R. Jarman [dr, eng], H.G. Collins, [22] Paternoster Row, London [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

17.3 x 10.7 [x 37]

Number of parts:

37

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

piers, river stairs

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, 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

Known copies of map:

Not in Ralph Hyde. BLML Maps 28.bb.22, Maps 15.b.18, BOL C17:70 Lond. e.4 [1854]; Bishopsgate Institute L.18, BOL C17:70 Lond. e.60, CUL Atlas.7.97.62, Camden 85.23 1854, RGS 3.A.33, Southwark Library 912, Tower Hamlets library L.4993 [repro from 1st ed of 1854, intro by H.J. Dyos, Leicester UP, 1973]; Bishopsgate Institute L.18, BOL G.A.Lond. 8o 98, CUL Atlas.7.85.12 [1859: Thomas Hodgson [pb]: London at a glance]; BLML Maps 28.bb.23 [1860]; BOL G.A.Lond. 8o 91 [1862: Darton & Hodge [pb]: London at a Glance]; CUL Atlas.7.86.10

Railways:

passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

One, occasionally two, vignettes of notable buildings, &c, on both pages of each opening.

Cemeteries:

shown

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