London-1894 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19559

Map Date:

1.10.1894

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 144.d.20

Town name:

Barking, Bromley, Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, Brentford, Chelsea, Hammersmith, Islington, Kensington, Paddington, Stepney, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Richmond, Marylebone, London, Westminster, Southwark, Hackney

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ320811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3083

Map title:

'Stanford's new map of the County of London on the scale of four inches to one mile'.

Comments on map:

A splendid show, though it is perhaps open to question as to how much is really additional to what was mapped by Ordnance Survey at about the same time.

Scale:

1:15,840

Map-maker:

Edward Stanford, 26 & 27 Cockspur St, London [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

41.7 x 38.0 [x 20], 41.0 x 30.5 [index].

Number of parts:

21

Legends:

general legend: Verbal, on title sheet.

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use: Parks, cemeteries & similar open spaces.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, piers, wharfs, misc: Shipping company offices.

Sanitary and utility information:

fire stations, gas works, reservoirs, water works, sewage disposal: [Floating Fire Station opposite Nine Elms pier].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established predominates: Few in City of London.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police, central government, Parliament: 'Institutions' (including volunteer barracks, etc, and the floating fire station) seem to be shown in exhaustive detail.

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries: Buildings, etc, at Woolwich Arsenal mapped, though shapes suggest some improvisation.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, orphanages, workhouses: Not many almshouses.

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges: Both categories seem to be shown exhaustively, particularly the board schools.

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds, recreation grounds

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: London County Council boundary.

Known copies of map:

Ralph Hyde's nos 266, 286. BLML Maps 144.a.20 or 144.d.20], BOL C17:70 London b.3, CUL Atlas.4.89.17, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], TNA [PRO] RAIL 1034/5A, RGS 9.H.11 [1894: H.266(1)]; BLML Maps 46.f.6, BOL 2027 a.6, RGS 1.B.95 [1894: central London, 4 sheets, in Stanford's London Atlas of Universal Geography, 1894]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [frag] [1900: H.266(2)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], TNA [PRO] RAIL 1034/5B [1901: H.266(3)]; BLML Maps 46.f.7, University of Exeter Geography Dept [1904: in London Atlas]; BLML Maps 9.dd.12, Maps 18.c.12, BOL C17:70 London b.2, GL [1905: H.266(4)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [frag] [1907: H.266(5)]; Camden folded map [as 4 x 50.5 x 20 ins]. H.286: BLML Maps 3480(399), CUL Maps.71.89.1, GL [1896: H.286(1)]; BOL C17:70 London (164), CUL Maps.c.18.G.78 [1897: H.286(2)]; Kensington Library [1903: H.286(3)]; BOL C17:70 London (594), PC [1906: H.286(4)]; CUL Maps.c.18.G.84

Industry:

bricks/tiles, chemicals: Not conspicuous, except on sheet 10, around Creekmouth and Woolwich.

Railways:

routes, sidings, named, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

public parks: Bandstands, etc, shown. Those under London County Council control are 'blue-green', others are 'yellow-green'; the blue-green may be a blue ruling added to the flat yellow-green.

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

[Shown: details not noted.]

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict industry: Old Tile Works, on sheet 1.

Walls, embankments, etc:

Rural field boundaries.

Stated measuerments:

spot heights

Ordnance Survey's

1862

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1864-5

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1861

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-5

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1865-6

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1868-1876

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-7

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1868-1876

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-7

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1866

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1891-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1866-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1848-51

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1848-51

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey