Middlesex-Holborn: St Giles-1750 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22188

Map Date:

? 1750

Repository reference:

BOL Gough Maps 20 [fol 36]

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Holborn: St Giles

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ307814

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'A new and exact plan of the parish of St Giles in ye Fields'.

Comments on map:

The eastern half only, unfortunately: no other copy traced.

Scale:

1:1584*

Map-maker:

John Vantack, Sign of the Golden Angel, Corner of Newtners Lane, Against Brownloe Street, in Drury Lane [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

42.5 x 68.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

shown

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Maps 20 Fol 36B.

Parkland:

public parks: [Lincolns Inn Fields].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Arms and heraldry:

uncertain: Below title: 12 shields, 8 filled, presumably notable residents.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

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