Middlesex-Bow-1870 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23470

Map Date:

? 1870

Repository reference:

Tower Hamlets Library, Local Studies section, map 462

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Bow, Bromley

Map type:

municipal

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ376830

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3982

Map title:

'Board of Works for the Poplar District Skeleton Map of the parishes of Saint Mary Stratford le Bow and Bromley Saint Leonard'.

Comments on map:

Indeed skeletal, and only included on grounds of scale: most streets omitted. Dated 1870 in card index.

Scale:

1:5280

Map-maker:

Waterlow & Sons, Lithographers, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

79.3 x 53.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

boundaries: Hand-coloured.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks

Sanitary and utility information:

water works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, uncertain: Seem to be unions and other districts: meaning unclear.

Known copies of map:

Tower Hamlets no.462.

Railways:

routes, named

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

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1866-9

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560