London-1863
CBTM:
19564
Map Date:
1863
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 3485 (24)
Town name:
Deptford, Greenwich, Chelsea, Hammersmith, Islington, Kensington, Paddington, Stepney, Lambeth, Marylebone, London, Westminster, Southwark
Map type:
Highways
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ320811
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3179
Map title:
'Vacher & Sons' Parliamentary map of the Metropolitan Railways shewing the lines in existence and in progress and all the proposed railways for which Bills have been deposited for Session 1863.'
Comments on map:
Principal roads and significant public buildings only: makes for clarity. Proposed railways and 'Session 1863' on red plate, so could be produced by 'overprint' methods.
Scale:
1:21,120
Map-maker:
Vacher & Sons [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
89.5 x 62.2
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
water, land-use, transport.: Parks and water hand-coloured.
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
cathedral/principal church only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, central government
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges
Known copies of map:
H.MI.7: BLML Maps 3485(24), BOL C17:70 London (260) [H.MI.7].
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations, projected or otherwise unbuilt lines: Proposed railways red.
Parkland:
public parks
Service and professional:
banks
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Belt-surround to title: significant?
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
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
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