London-1880 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22310

Map Date:

? 1880

Repository reference:

CUL Maps.c.72.87.5

Town name:

Birkenhead: Park, 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:

[Cover:] Crutchley's handy map of London', [map:] 'Crutchley's new plan of London'.

Comments on map:

Relationship to other Crutchley offerings not determined: this one lacks the sand-bank in the Thames, but seems to derive from a larger plate, as witness some truncated names and apparently illogical use of sans-serif in places. Dated c.1876 in CUL card-index: shows route of circle line complete, but apparently no station at Tower Hill; does show Courts of Justice in Strand as built.

Scale:

1:16,896

Map-maker:

Gall & Inglis, Edinburgh and 25 Paternoster Square, London [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

56.7 x 39.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries: Shows the two cities and Southwark, but only City of London actually appears.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

royal palaces, important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some ephasised buildings, e.g. city churches, not mapped.

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, piers, river stairs, wharfs

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, pumping stations, water works

Places of Worship:

incompletely shown

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, central government, Parliament

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, volunteer parade grounds

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, orphanages, workhouses, misc: Rl Military Asylum.

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds: Lords is just 'Cricket Ground'.

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough: [City of London].

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.c.72.87.5 [1876: 57 x 39]; CUL Maps.c.71.88.9 [1880.c: 63 x 46]; CUL Maps.c.71.88.7 [1885: 72 x 46].

Industry:

distilling, engineering, food/drink, misc: Mint.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

museums, art galleries

Parkland:

botanic gardens, public parks, zoological gardens

Service and professional:

Inns of Court, Bank of England

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners: [Brewery].

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

shown partially: [Primrose Hill].

Monuments:

memorials, statues, misc: Cleopatra's Needle, [Albert Memorial].

Reference system:

squaring: 0.5-mile.

Cemeteries:

shown

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