Middlesex-Bow-1768 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23468

Map Date:

1768

Repository reference:

Tower Hamlets Library, Local Studies section, map 253

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Bow

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ376830

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3982

Map title:

'A plan of the parish of St Mary, Stratford Bow, made from an actual survey, taken A.D. 1768, by R. Cardwell, Geogr.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from mid-later 19th century Waterlow litho version. Churchwardens and overseers named, top right: parochial purposes are implied. Acreages of holdings tabulated: buildings seem incomplete.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

R. Cardwell [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

41.2 x 53.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

estate

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

Tower Hamlets no.1701 [original]; Tower Hamlets nos 522-3 [Waterlow printing].

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Mirror-surround round title, leaves round churchwardens and overseers.

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1866

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560