London-1867
CBTM:
19569
Map Date:
? 1867
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 3480 (203)
Town name:
Ashover, 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:
'Illustrated map of London or stranger's guide to the public buildings, theatres, music halls, & all places of interest.'
Comments on map:
All buildings shown by in situ vignettes, with usual problem of obscuring streets to 'north', even though only principal streets are shown. Dating supported by inclusion of Cannon St station, but exclusion of St Pancras: inner circle hinted as complete [which it only was in 1884].
Scale:
1:12,672*
Map-maker:
G.H. Bartlett, 5 Great Queen St, Westminster [lith], Smith & Son, 63 Charing Cross, S.W. [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
63.5 x 48.5
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
water, other: Sienna tint inside roads.
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established predominates
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, central government
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, mental, orphanages
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Known copies of map:
H.115: BLML Maps 3480(203), 3480(204), London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1867.c: H.115(1)]; BLML Maps 3480(362) [1871.c: H.115(2)]; BL [1872.c: H.115(3)]; PC [1874.c: H.115(3a)]; BLML Maps 3480(234) [1876.c: H.115(4)]; BLML Maps 5.a.8 [1878.c: H.115(5)]; BLML Maps 3480(246) [1879.c: H.115(6)]; BOL C17:70 London (378) [1880s]; PC [1885.c: H.115(6a)]; Bishopsgate Institute L.18 [1887.c/'1890': H.115(7)]; GL [1888: in S. Rea, Railways terminating in London (New York, 1888): H.115(7a)]; GL [1900, in Seven days in London: H.115(8)].
Industry:
misc: Shot Towers [on south bank].
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc: [Particular attention paid to music halls].
Parkland:
public parks, private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks, Inns of Court
Waterbodies:
shown
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Marble Arch.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial boats etc in river.
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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