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Middlesex-Hampstead-1891

CBTM:
23319
Map Date:
1891
Repository reference:
Camden Local Studies Library 85.242 1890
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
Hampstead
Map type:
municipal
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ263858
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3289
Map title:
'Map of the parish of St John, Hampstead. Middlesex. 1891.'
Comments on map:
Straightforward transcript of Ordnance Survey 1:2500, similar in style to the 1900 map [Exeter 22876].
Scale:
1:4440
Map-maker:
Charles H. Lowe, Surveyor [? author], Sprague & Co., Photo-Litho, 4 & 5 East Harding St, Fetter Lane, E.C. [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
97.3 x 97.8
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
boundaries: Hand-coloured.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
building infill omitted, glazed areas: Only infill is cross-hatching for glasshouses.
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs, misc: Chalybeate Well, Drinking Fountain, Pumps, Well.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, workhouses, misc: Soldiers' Daughters Home.
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish, misc, boundary markers: Handcoloured: possibly wards. ['B.S.' for boundary stones].
Known copies of map:
Camden 85.242 1890, London Metropolitan Archives Acc.2558/MW/C/32/P092 [UFP]; Westminster Archives ['Strong Room 10' is obsolete reference: not traced, 11:5:05] [1891].
Industry:
timber
Railways:
routes, earthworks, named, rails, passenger stations, misc: Signal posts: railways added after making of Ordnance Survey shown by fences and name only.
River and foreshore features:
misc: Fountains.
Gardens:
nurseries
Miscellaneous:
A few Ordnance Survey area numbers survive outside parish boundary around Kilburn.
Antiquities:
Site of Priory.
Waterbodies:
shown
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Post and telegraphs:
flagstaff, letter-boxes, post offices
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Earthworks along roads.
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Grotto, Seats, Ventilating Shaft.
Cemeteries:
shown
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Guide Post, milestones with distances.
Street tramways:
depots
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown, eating houses: [Refreshment Lodge at Primrose Hill].
Miscellaneous religious group:
Priory.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
heath/uncultivated
Stated measuerments:
bench marks, spot heights
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1848-50
1:1056
1:5280
1:10,560
Skeleton survey
1865-7
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
1893-4
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
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