Middlesex-Islington-1822 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19592

Map Date:

1.5.1822

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3495 (46)

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Islington

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ315845

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3289

Map title:

'Plan of Islington parish.' [top centre]; [on map, top right:] 'Reduced from the survey made by order of the vestry in the years 1805 & 6 by R. Dent, corrected up to the present time by C.H. Hill including all the recent & projected improvements. Under the sanction of the churchwardens and some of the Principal Landholders & dedicated to the Most Noble the Marquess of Northampton by his obedient humble servant Thos. Starling.'

Comments on map:

Statistical and historical note, bottom left, and notes on manors and boundaries, below title: Marquis of Northampton was lord of the manors of Canonbury and St James Clerkenwell.

Scale:

1:9504

Map-maker:

R. Dent [sv], C.H. Hill [rv], Thomas Starling, 7 Clarks Place, Islington [eng, pb], Mr Faden, Charing Cross, Geographer to his Majesty [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

43.8 x 59.2

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, dispensaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

manor, boundary markers

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3495(46) [original]; BLML Maps 3495(49), CUL Maps.bb.19.G.148, Islington Library ['facsimile', pub R.H. Burdekin, of 1828 edition corrected by S. Rhodes].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, metallurgical processing, uncertain

River and foreshore features:

springs: [Mineral Spring].

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

riding schools

Antiquities:

Two supposed Roman camps.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right: 'View from near the Willow Bridge, Canonbury'.

Borders:

decorative

Foot/bridle ways:

shown: Note by publisher that they are all included, so may include some to which the public has 'no legal claim'.

Dedicee of map:

The Most Noble the Marquis of Northampton.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

tea-gardens: [Tea House].

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