Middlesex-Clerkenwell-1807 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21299

Map Date:

? 1807

Repository reference:

London Metropolitan Archives Acc./1876/MP/01/188

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Clerkenwell

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ313823

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3289

Map title:

'Plan of the parish of Clerkenwell.'

Comments on map:

Dated ? 1807 in London Metropolitan Archives catalogue, but bottom right it advertises Hornor's Kingston upon Thames [Exeter 21284]. Bottom left is an advertisement for Hornor's work generally, saying that this is a specimen, but this copy is an 'outline' printing, without the aquatint or any building, etc, infills (or overprints?), and looks conventional, but also very neat: engraving would not disgrace Ordnance Survey. The note bottom right says that the map is 'reduced from a large Drawing which is deposited in St James Church, Clerkenwell; the Survey of which was taken for several Parochial purposes.' Pickett engraved the plan and writing, Hassell was responsible for the aquatint [not present on this copy].

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

T. Hornor, Land surveyor, Pictural and Descriptive Planner of Estates &c., Church Court, Temple [sv, dr], Pickett , Hassell [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

89.3 x 63.0

Number of parts:

2

Road names:

generally

Building names:

house numbers

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs, misc: The Spa by New River Head.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: With steps to church.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

rifle ranges

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, misc: Divisions within parish.

Known copies of map:

London Metropolitan Archives Acc./1876/MP/01/188 (anor copy at /189).

Industry:

distilling, food/drink

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: [not overprinted on this copy].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right: 'The Church Sessions House & Clerkenwell Green' [not overprinted on this copy].

Cemeteries:

shown

Walls, embankments, etc:

Fences or rails.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown, coffee houses, tea-gardens: [One Coffee House].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1870-72

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1894

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560