Middlesex-Islington-1735 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19591

Map Date:

30.4.1735

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3495 (34)

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Islington

Map type:

Highways

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ315845

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3289

Map title:

'Survey and admeasurement of all the public roads, lands, & footpaths in the parish of St Mary, Islington in the county of Middlesex. Measured in May 1735, by Henry Warner, Great Kirby Street, Hatton Garden.'

Comments on map:

Seems to be mid-19th-century litho copy. BM RD 16 Nov 1877 [red].

Scale:

1:8640

Map-maker:

Henry Warner, Great Kirby Street, Hatton Garden [author].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

24.2 x 36.8

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, workhouses

Public/administrative boundaries:

boundary markers

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3495(34); BLML Maps 3495(36) [1811].

Industry:

bricks/tiles

Miscellaneous:

Letters at road junctions.

Relief:

shown partially

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

'Copenhagen' is pictorial. 'Chapel' outside boundary, but no sign of church.

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1869

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560