Middlesex-Fulham-1853 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18178

Map Date:

1853

Repository reference:

Hammersmith and Fulham

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Fulham

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ242768

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3080

Comments on map:

'Feb. to May 1853' in title: Tithe Commission stamp, 20 June 1853, Poor Law Board stamp, smudged, __ ?June 1853. Now framed and screwed to strongroom wall. Up-market 'plain plan' style. PAI/1/246/1 is 'Particulars of the Valuation of the Parish of Fulham for Assessment made 1853. I.M. McClure Surveyor' [from cover]. Inside are typed extracts of 1893 from the Vestry minutes, showing the the survey was made following a Vestry resolution of 8 August 1850. Title page is part of printed 4-sided pro forma, (Shaw & Son, Fetter Lane) which includes 'Notes on Plan of Valuation.' 'It may be useful to observe... that the Columns 1, 2, 3, and 4, will necessarily be taken from the Book of Reference connected with the Plan, (if there be a Plan), and that the Churchwardens and Overseers in making out a rate will only have to deal with Columns 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, which they can copy into the Rate Book.' Columns: 1, Name, or Situation of each Field, or Parcel of Property; 2, Description or Mode of Cultivation of each Field or Parcel of Property; 3, No. on Map (if there be any.) 4, Quantity of each Field or Parcel of Property; 5, Total Quantity in each holding which is separately Rated; 6, Gross Estimated Rental of each Holding which is separately Rated. 7, Rateable value of each Holding which is separately Rated. 8, Name or Situation of each Holding which is separately Rated. 9, Description of each Holding which is separately Rated. 10, Name of Occupier of each Holding which is separately Rated. 11, No. in Rate Book. [Unnumbered:] Name of Owner of each Holding which is separately Rated. Total acreage of parish 1689:1:33, which includes 65:2:17 of unnumbered roads and waste.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

John M. McClure, Surveyor, 14 Henley Street, London [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

135 x 195

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Road names:

generally

Building names:

fragmentary: For location purposes.

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown: Includes Lily Bridge.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Public/administrative boundaries:

boundary markers

Known copies of map:

Hammersmith & Fulham F910 MAC [framed] [original]; Hammersmith & Fulham F910 MAC [photocopy]; Hammersmith & Fulham F910 MAC [1971: full-size reproduction by Causer & Co.]; Hammersmith & Fulham F910 MAC, RGS Eng & Wales LOCATION??? [Fulham & Hammersmith Historical Society, 1974: reduction from a redrawing in Fulham Library: 46 x 69.5 cm].

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations

Gardens:

shown

Borders:

decorative

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1865

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560