Middlesex-Chelsea-1836 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19585

Map Date:

4.7.1836

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 175.t.4(2)

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Chelsea

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ275780

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3080

Map title:

'...Map of Chelsea, from a new and actual survey, shewing the ecclesiastical divisions of St Luke and Upper Chelsea, and the district of Hans Town and containing that portion of the parishes of Kensington and St Margaret Westminster, lying between the boundary of Chelsea and the Fulham Road...'

Comments on map:

On right of map are notes on boundaries and areas. (No reference or landowner information.)

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

F.P. Thompson, Land Surveyor, 10 Bury St, near the new church, Chelsea [sv, pb], J. & C. Walker, 3 Burleigh St, Strand, London [eng, pr].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

105.5 x 71.0 [there is also a 0.5 cm overlap of some close detail on the western (left-hand) plate].

Number of parts:

2

Legends:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, archways

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

river stairs

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Pump: in Sloane St.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, mental, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, misc: Divisions of parish.

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 175.t.4(2) [original]; Kensington Local Studies [photo]; BLML Maps 3990(7), BOL (E)C17:70 London (951), CUL Maps.aa.73.96.1-, RGS Eng & Wales S.331, Westminster Archives Map Cabt A.044 [1969: London Topographical Society publication 111].

Industry:

food/drink, timber

River and foreshore features:

misc: Stadium floating Swimming School [in river], Stadium New Causeway & Stairs.

Gardens:

shown

Miscellaneous:

Brompton Grange and another area annotated 'Refused Admittance'.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Borders:

decorative

Cemeteries:

shown

Dedicee of map:

Rt Hon the Earl of Cadogan.

Stated measuerments:

other: Road lengths, in feet.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1864

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560