London-1897 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18295

Map Date:

? 1897

Repository reference:

Devon & Exeter Institution (open access)

Town name:

Deptford, Greenwich, Islington, Paddington, Stepney, Lambeth, Marylebone, London, Westminster, Southwark

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ320811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3179

Map title:

[Map and cover:] 'Bacon's large-print map of London and suburbs'.

Comments on map:

This appears to be a much later version of Ralph Hyde's no. 191, which is dated 'c.1882'; the style of cartography is rather modern for early 1880s, and it is not perhaps the same map. Scale recorded as 2.38 inches to 1 mile (1:26,621). Dating from an advertisement in the street index inside the cover, which includes another copy of the 9-inch extract, as on Exeter 18282.

Scale:

1:26,400

Map-maker:

G.W. Bacon & Co. Ltd, 127 Strand, London [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

89.0 x 69.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, boundaries, land-use: Parks and cemeteries green: hand-coloured.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

misc: Police Court at Wandsworth is example of the sort of thing to be found in the suburbs.

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

rifle ranges: Butts with distances on Wormwood Scrubs.

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools: 'B.S.' frequently, i.e. Board School.

Public/administrative boundaries:

chapelry, postal districts.

Known copies of map:

Kensington Library [1882.c: H.191(1)]; PC [1884.c: H.191(2)]; BOL C17:70 London (135), CUL Maps.71.88.9 [1889]; BLML Maps 27.a.33 [1890: not in H, BL 9.48]; BOL C17:70 London (206) [1891]; CUL Maps.c.18.G.37 [1893]; Devon & Exeter Institution [1897?: New Large Print... ('MSLR' under construction): not in H]; BOL C17:70 London (187) [1907]. This mapping was used in Bacon's atlases in 1889, 1891 and 1895, covering London at 1:31,680 in two sheets, each about 30.5 x 43.7 within the neatline.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations: Include Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway by pecked lines.

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, misc: Public Library is example of the sort of thing to be found in the suburbs.

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground: Crystal Palace grounds include the two towers and boating lake, but no monsters.

Service and professional:

Inns of Court

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