London-1857 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23283

Map Date:

? 1857

Repository reference:

Guidhall Library Folded Maps 1857 M0042565CL

Town name:

Leyton, Deptford, Greenwich, Chelsea, Fulham, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Islington, Kensington, Paddington, Stepney, Battersea, Camberwell, Lambeth, Rotherhithe, Marylebone, St Pancras, London, Westminster, Southwark, Whitechapel, Hackney, Bermondsey, Wandsworth

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ320811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3179

Map title:

'Postal District Map of London issued with the Illustrated Times'.

Comments on map:

Has the appearence of wood-engraving printed lithographically: the more dense detail is not very legible.

Scale:

1:21,120*

Map-maker:

Panicondographie par Gillot a Paris [pr], Illustrated Times [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

91.0 x 70.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

land-use, other: Postal districts and open spaces: hand coloured.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

royal palaces, important buildings only, outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Numerous buildings emphasised but not named.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, piers, naval dockyards, river stairs, boat houses, wharfs

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits, gas works, reservoirs, water works

Places of Worship:

incompletely shown: City churches, etc, probably account for many of the emphasised but unnamed buildings in the more built-up parts.

Public buildings:

customs, police, central government, Parliament

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, volunteer parade grounds, misc.: Guard Ho., Victualling Office.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, blind, hospitals, mental, orphanages, workhouses, misc: Masonic Girls Asylum.

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

county, borough, postal districts.

Known copies of map:

Ralph Hyde's no.50: BL, GL Folded Maps 1857 M0042565CL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [H.50].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, chemicals, distilling, engineering, food/drink, ship yards, rope walk, textiles, timber, uncertain, misc: Factories; Portable Buildings, Floor Cloth, Glue, Turpentine, White Lead, Iron Cable, Royal Mint.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, motive power depots, named, passenger stations, projected or otherwise unbuilt lines

Gardens:

shown, market gardens, nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

museums, misc: Colessium.

Parkland:

botanic gardens, public parks, private parks and ornamental ground, zoological gardens

Service and professional:

Inns of Court, Bank of England

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners, industrial owners: [Metropolitan Freehold Land Society, Mr Cubitt's premises].

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Commons:

shown

Monuments:

obelisks, statues

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Reference system:

distance circles: Radius of 4 miles from Charing Cross.

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

out-of-town inns only, tea-gardens

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated, marsh/wetland: [Marsh and uncultivated ground effectively the same].

Stated measuerments:

other: River mileages; a few road mileages and dock acreages.

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