London-1890
CBTM:
19578
Map Date:
? 1890
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 3485 (97)
Town name:
Attleborough, 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:
'Pictorial chart of London and guide to the principal streets, railways, places of interest and amusements, &c. With the compliments of George Smyth & Son, Silk Mercers, Drapers, Costumiers and General Outfitters, 80 to 84, The Broadway, Plymouth.'
Comments on map:
Main streets and large pictorial public buildings, railway termini, etc. Letterpress at bottom has 'London statistics', and 'Principal places of interest', being churches, exhibitions, public buildings and museums. Undated: BM RD 21 May 1890 [blue].
Scale:
1:15,840*
Map-maker:
Herbert Fitch & Co., Bury St, London E.C. [lith], George Smyth & Son, 80-84 Broadway, Plymouth [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
52.5 x 41.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
Buildings: Theatres (circle), churches & chapels (St John's cross), hotels and restaurants (wineglass), picture galleries & halls (hatched).
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established predominates
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, orphanages
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Known copies of map:
H.242: BLML Maps 3485(97).
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, museums, art galleries
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground, zoological gardens: Elephant being walked in Regents Park zoo: the keeper's posture is reminscent of C16-17 mapping.
Waterbodies:
shown
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Shipping, boats and barges in river; only humans outside zoo seem to be those in rowing boats.
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown, eating houses: [Particular emphasis on hotels and restaurants].
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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