Middlesex-Chelsea-1850 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19586

Map Date:

? 1850

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3990 (5)

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Chelsea

Map type:

Highways

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ275780

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3080

Map title:

'Plan for the Improvement of Chelsea.'

Comments on map:

Compared with Exeter 19585, this is not very informative, except for the house numbers, which are very fragmentary (assuming that they are indeed thus, and not just having reference to an ad hoc reference for the immediate purpose in hand).

Scale:

1:2520

Map-maker:

Whitaker & Co Litho, 22 Chancery Lane [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

122 x 70

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water, other: Red lines show proposed new streets, or limits of widening.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly, house numbers: Putative: fragmentary.

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.: Omitted where not affecting improvements.

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, mental, workhouses

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3990(5) [original]; Kensington Local Studies [photo].

Cemeteries:

shown

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