London-1861
CBTM:
19574
Map Date:
? 1861
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 188.h.1(5), Maps 3480 (241)
Town name:
Deptford, Greenwich, Chelsea, Hammersmith, Islington, Kensington, Paddington, 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:
[Published by Cassell:] 'Cassell's map of London'; [Published by Bacon:] 'Bacon's Library map of London and suburbs
Comments on map:
Maps 188.H.1(5) is Ralph Hyde's no.73, 'Cassell's map of London'; Maps 3480 (241) is Ralph Hyde's no.165, 'Bacon's Library map of London and suburbs
Scale:
1:6732
Map-maker:
Edward Weller, F.R.G.S. [author, eng], Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor, steam litho, (or 'Patent rapid self-acting litho machines by steam power'), London [lith], Cassell, Petter & Gilpin, Belle Sauvage Yard, Ludgate Hill, E.C. [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
66 x 50 [x 12].
Number of parts:
15
Legends:
postal, transport: Postal boundaries, Letter Receiving Offices and 'Pillars' (+), Money Order Offices (asterisk).
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, piers, river stairs
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, water works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, central government, misc: And much else.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, mental, orphanages, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
H.73, H.165, H.186. H.73 is initially in 9 sheets, as described above; H.165 is extended single-sheet version 'Bacon's Library Map', 250 x 162; H.186 is . H.73: BLML Maps 188.h.1(5), CUL Maps.c.71.86.7,1-9, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Camden 85.23 1862 [Weekley Dispatch, 6.1-11.5.62, & Weekley Dispatch, 1863: H.73(1)]; Lambeth-Minet 2/[1861-2]/M88 (AP 615); Kensington Library [1863: H.73(2)]; BL Colindale, CUL Maps.b.18.G.22,1-9, GL [12.9-28.11.63 in Cassell's illustrated family paper: H.73(3)]; Lambeth-Minet [evidently incomplete sets]; BL, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1863.c, MacMM: H.73(4)]; PC [H.73(4a)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1866.c: H.73(5)]; BLML Maps 4.e.11, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], ?CUL Atlas.3.86.7 [1866, revised John Dower: Cassell's British Atlas: H.73(6)]; BOL C17:70 London (380) [1867: with 6 sheets of suburbs]; CUL Maps.bb.71.87.1- [?H.73(6 or 7)]; BLML Maps 43.f.13 [1871, pll 81-9 in Bacon's illus complete atlas: H.73(7)]; Southwark Library Map Drawer 1, Map 125 [SE sheet only, ?H.73(1)]; Southwark Library Map Draw 1, Map 391 [S.sheet only], also Map Cabt 2, Map 668; Bishopsgate Institute FFL.18 (bound in volume) [1870.c, Cassell & Galpin, Map of L, new ed, 9 sheets: H.73(?6,7)]; London Metropolitan Archives open access photocopy RM 16 [photocopy: state?]. H.165: BLML Maps 3480(241) [H.165: Bacon's Library Map]. H.186: BLML Maps 32.e.33(1), London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [H.186: (issued as supplements to Land, 2:7-5:11:81)]. Atlases: CUL Atlas 3.86.6 [1863: pub G.W. Bacon: in The Dispatch Atlas (20 plates)]; included in 'Bacon's new Ordnance Survey Atlas of London and suburbs' [1879-80]; 'New large-scale Ordnance atlas of London & suburbs' [1885, 1888] [Exeter 18656]. School Board mapping: BLML Maps 3990(1) [1879: Chelsea]; BL Maps 56.e.20 [1879/1971: Chelsea, in B.R. Curle: Historic Kensington in maps, 1741-1894: 8 maps in portfolio: Kensington & Chelsea Borough Library, 1979]; BLML 4018(1), CUL Maps.c.73.87.1, London Metropolitan Archives HO.BG 657 [assumed to be thus] [1879: Finsbury, 123 x 84]; BLML Maps 4020(2) [1879: Hackney]; BLML Maps 4105 (3) [1879: Marylebone]. Chelsea parish and Kensal New Town: Kensington Local Studies [1879]; BL Maps 56.e.20 [1971: in B.R. Curle: Historic Kensington in maps, 1741-1894: 8 maps in portfolio: Kensington & Chelsea Borough Library, 1979]; Kensington Local Studies [1882]; CUL Maps.c.73.88.2, Kensington Local Studies [1887: corr G.R. Strachan]; Kensington Local Studies [1890]; Kensington Local Studies [1892]; Kensington Local Studies [1895]. Deptford: St Luke parish, Medway Archives CCRC P.76; Fulham (borough): Hammersmith & Fulham F910 FUL [1885]. Hackney (borough): Hackney Archives V215(S) [1885.c: borough & school board], V319 [1885.c: polling districts]. Hammersmith parish: Hammersmith & Fulham HC 910 [1872]; Hammersmith & Fulham F910BAC [1895: reduced to 1:8448: original]; Hammersmith & Fulham HC 910 [1895: photo]; Hammersmith & Fulham HC 910 [1899: with Poor Law Relief Districts and Medical and Vaccination Districts]; Holborn (borough) Camden 85.23 c.1900 [1900.c: showing wards]. Kensington, St Mary Abbotts parish: CUL Maps.c.73.89.1, Kensington Local Studies [1892: wards, rate collection & sanitary districts, & water & electric supplies: 2 sheets, 74 x 90, uses 1:15,840 and 1:6732, H.73 and H.160]. G.W. Bacon: St Marylebone, 69 x 51: Westminster Archives Work room area 912.42151, Westminster Archives Map Cabt A, Ashbridge 062, Westminster Archives St Marylebone Box II (2 copies) [1885]; [?] CUL Maps.D.73.89.1, Westminster Archives Work room area 912.41251 [4 copies], Westminster Archives Map Cabt A, Ashbridge 062, Westminster Archives St Marylebone Box II [1890]; Westminster Archives Map Cabt A [2 copies], Westminster Archives Ashbridge 062 [1895.c]; CUL Maps.c.73.90.6, London Metropolitan Archives Acc.2558/MW/C/31/555, Westminster Archives St Marylebone Box II, Westminster Archives Work Room Area 912.42151 (3 copies), Westminster Archives Map Cabt A, T.13.O.S.2, Westminster Archives T.13, OS in Map Cabt, Westminster Archives Ashbridge 062; Westminster Archives Map Cabt A, 062 [1900]. St George the Martyr parish, 46 x 36: Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 272 [1893: disease map]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 218 [1895: pb A. Millar, vestry clerk]. St Mary Newington, showing the wards: Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 344 [1882]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 273 [1884]; Map 420 [1886]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 421 [1888]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 376 [1888, with wards]; Southwark Library Map cabt 2, Map 326, also Map 375 [1890, with parliamentary divisions]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 374 [1891, with wards]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 373 [1892, with wards]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 421 [1893]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 372 [1893, with wards]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 371 [1894, with wards]; Southwark Library Map cabt 2, Map 601 [1894]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 370 [1895, with wards]; Southwark Library Map cabt 2, Map 782 [1895, parliamentary divisions]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 369 [1896, with wards]; Southwark Library Map Draw 3, Map 783 [1896, parliamentary divisions]; Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 422 [1896: street plan]. St Pancras: 'Map of the Parish of St Pancras corrected to 1884', 64 x 95: London Metropolitan Archives MBW 2604 (2 copies) [1884]; BL S.T.P., Camden 85.244 1893 [1893]. Shoreditch parish: Hackney Archives (map cabinet) [1892]. The Southwark Annual Map, with parliamentary divisions, 81 x 41: Southwark Library Map Cabt 2, Map 383 [1893]; CUL Maps.73.90.5 [1900]. School board mapping: BLML Maps 4163(1) [1879: Southwark]; BLML Maps 4176(1) [1879: Tower Hamlets, 2 sheets]; BLML Maps 4178(1) [1879: Westminster, 4 sheets]. Miscellaneous extracts: Greenwich Local Studies [n.d., of Greenwich]. Miscellaneous maps in books: TNA [PRO] Library [1886: E. Weller [lith], Street re-alignment & re-construction of Central London, in H.H. Bridgman, Street re-alignment & re-construction of Central London, London: Bell, 1886.
Industry:
rope walk
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Parkland:
public parks
Service and professional:
banks, insurance offices, newspaper offices
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
prominent hills
Borders:
decorative
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
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
1848-50
1:1056
1:5280
1:10,560
Skeleton survey
1869
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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