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London-1888

CBTM:
18657
Map Date:
1888
Repository reference:
[Private collection]
Town name:
Leyton, Walthamstow, Bromley, Deptford, Greenwich, Brentford, Chelsea, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Islington, Kensington, Paddington, Stepney, Tottenham, Croydon, Lambeth, Richmond, Marylebone, London, Westminster, Southwark
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ320811
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3083
Map title:
'New large-scale Ordnance atlas of London & suburbs...'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from Hyde/Margary/London Topographical Society facsimile, 1987. There is marked west-east overlap between the sections, but little or none north-south.
Scale:
1:15,840
Map-maker:
George W. Bacon, London [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
46.5 x 30.5 [x 24]
Number of parts:
24
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
piers, wharfs: Cattle Wharf.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, water works, misc: Northern Outfall Sewer.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, rifle ranges, misc.: Royal Arsenal at Woolwich shown in considerable detail.
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, orphanages, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
race courses, sports grounds, recreation grounds: [Streatham Steeple Chase Course].
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
postal districts., Parish
Known copies of map:
The mapping uses the 'nine-inch' (1:6732) mapping [H.73/H.165] [Exeter 19574] for the central part, and the four-inch (1:15,840) mapping [H.160] [Exeter 18282] for the outer parts. Main record made from the 1888 edition, which was the one used by Harry Margary (The A to Z of Victorian London, introductory notes by Ralph Hyde, Lympne: Harry Margary (in association with London: Guildhall Library, 1987), and which unlike the other two has a dated title-page; all are published by G.W. Bacon, 127 Strand, London. The 'New Ordnance Survey atlas' is BM RD (green) 18 Nov 1880, the earlier 'New large-scale...' is BM RD 9 Jan 1886 (red). The 1879-80 version uses 1:6732 cover for Hammersmith/Willesden Jc to Victoria Docks/Plaistow Sta, and Red Post Hill/Putney LSWR to south end of Finsbury Pk GNR, and 1:15,840 cover extending south to Wimbledon Sta and Crystal Palace and north to just north of Wood Green junctions. The 1885 version has similar 1:6732 cover, and includes complete 1:15,840 cover, similar to 1888 (i.e. including Croydon), though the index at the front does not make this quite as clear as it might. [Not included in Ralph Hyde: made up from H.73 and H.160]: BLML Maps 2.d.30 [1879]; BLML Maps 3.e.24, Bath Library [local studies] [1880]; BLML Maps 4.e.4 [1882]; BLML Maps 10.cc.7 [1885?]; BOL C17:40.c.1, CUL Atlas.5.88.15 [1886]; CUL Atlas.5.98.162, Camden 77.71, Southwark Library S.C.912 [1888/1987: The A to Z of Victorian London, introductory notes by Ralph Hyde, Lympne: Harry Margary (in association with London: Guildhall Library, 1987)]; Camden 85.23 1891 [1891: Bacon's new atlas of London & suburbs]; Camden 85.23 1895 [Bacon's new atlas of London & suburbs]; CUL Atlas.5.90.39, Lambeth-Minet 2/1900/M195 [1900: New Large-Scale atlas of London].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, chemicals, engineering, food/drink, metallurgical processing, ship yards, oil/soap etc, rope walk, furniture/pottery
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, museums
Parkland:
public parks, private parks and ornamental ground: Crystal Palace grounds shown in considerable detail, but there is no indication of where the geological specimens and monsters are.
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Tumulus.
Waterbodies:
shown
Commons:
shown
Reference system:
squaring, distance circles: As on the '9-inch' [Exeter 18656], the 'half-mile' squaring does not accord very well with the scale-bar.
Cemeteries:
shown
Street tramways:
routes shown
Stated measuerments:
spot heights
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