Middlesex-Hammersmith-1853 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18177

Map Date:

1853

Repository reference:

Hammersmith and Fulham

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Hammersmith

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ232786

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 1978

Map title:

'Map of the parish of Hammersmith in the county of Middlesex prepared & published by Alfred James Roberts, Vestry Clerk A.D.1853.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy. Notes give total acreage (2292), population, with total males and females, and total rateable value (69,269 L). Ecclesiastical district boundaries summarily described. 'N.B. The Plots of Land are numbered according to the Tithe Apportionment Plan'. Annotation bottom right: 'Presented to the Commissioners for Public Libraries and Museums, Hammersmith, by E.F. Roberts A.R.I.B.A. Hammersmith 6th Febry. 1888.' Fields and larger houses are numbered; terrace houses are not.

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

Alfred James Roberts, Vestry Clerk [author, pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

60 x 91

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water, boundaries

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, piers, wharfs

Sanitary and utility information:

sewers, water works: [Common Sewer].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

police

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Public/administrative boundaries:

ecclesiastical districts, boundary markers

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 4190(4) [Exeter 19590], BOL C17:70 London (290), CUL Maps 73.85.1, Hammersmith & Fulham HC 910, H 910 [Exeter 18177], London Metropolitan Archives Acc.2558/MW/C/31/555, TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/59 [originals]; BLML Maps 187.l.10, BOL C17:70 London (538), CUL Maps.bb.73.95.5, Hammersmith & Fulham F910 ROB [1956: Hammersmith Local History Society].

Industry:

chemicals, engineering, food/drink, misc: Wax Facty.

Railways:

routes, named, rails

Gardens:

market gardens

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Market garden owners, e.g. Plimley's Market Garden].

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Suspension Bridge.

Cemeteries:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

out-of-town inns only

Miscellaneous religious group:

Convent.

Stated measuerments:

spot heights: Spot heights to 0.1 ft in built-up part, presumably from the Ordnance Survey 1:1056 skeleton survey [they are agreeable with the values on the 1894-6 edition 1:2500].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete