Middlesex-Holborn-1756 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19612

Map Date:

[1756]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3495 (129)

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Clerkenwell, Holborn

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ315845

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3289

Map title:

'A new and accurate survey of the parishes of St Andrew Holbourn, without the Freedom, St George Queen Square, St James Clerkenwell, St Luke Old Street, St Mary Islington and The Charterhouse Liberty.'

Comments on map:

[Unlike Exeter 19611, there is no tell-tale page number.]

Scale:

1:11,520*

Map-maker:

B. Cole [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

23.0 x 37.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only: Including Frog Hall at Islington.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Most emphasised buildings are not named or described.

Sanitary and utility information:

water works

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3495(129), Camden 85.245 c.1755.

Industry:

textiles

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1870-1

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1894

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560