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London-1897

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
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