Middlesex-Kensington-1766 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23340

Map Date:

22.7.1766

Repository reference:

RGS England & Wales S.13

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Kensington

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ255795

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3080

Map title:

'A topographical survey of the parish of Kensington: with plans and elevations of the Royal Palace, and gardens, Hide Park, and Knightsbridge.'

Comments on map:

Covers Holland Park, Kensington village, Knightsbridge and Hyde Park, rather than the whole parish. Text is in reference at bottom, with only numbers in situ. The whole effect is of a birds-eye wall-map for display, with pictorial traffic on roads and animals in parks, as well as pictorial buildings and land-use. As this copy, in uncropped sheets, is of clear black pulls on paper watermarked J. Whatman 1811, it rather seems that the map was not a best-seller.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

Joshua Rhodes [sv], George Bickham [eng], Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, St Pauls Church Yard, London [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

65.6 x 43.7 [overall: map 65.3 x 43.5, plate 67.3 x 45.3], 65.7 x 48.5 [overall: map 65.7 x 48.3, plate 67.2 x 50.3], 66.2 x 49.2 [overall: map 66.2 x 49.0, plate 67.2 x 50.5], 66.2 x 43.8 [overall: map 66.0 x 43.5, plate 67.3 x 45.2], 65.5 x 43.5 [overall: map 65.2 x 40.8, plate 67.0 x 45.3], 65.5 x 43.8 [overall: map 65.5 x 41.2, plate 67.0 x 45.3], 66.0 x 43.8 [overall: map 66.0 x 41.0, plate 66.8 x 45.3], 66.2 x 43.5 [overall: map 66.0 x 40.7, plate 67.2 x 45.0].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Turnpikes:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, misc.: Guard House, Place for Execution of Desertors.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

RGS Eng & Wales S.13 [513612] [original]; Kensington Local Studies [reduced photo].

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground: Buildings within described in detail.

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Rococco: cascading water, putti, spewing fish and mermen, etc round title; antique-looking men with globes and sheets of paper round surveyor and engraver details.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Monuments:

obelisks, (pictorial)

Symbolic elements:

Putti, fish, mermen: round title; men, globes, paper: round surveyor and engraver details.

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Milestones [pictorial].

Walls, embankments, etc:

Hedges and fences [pictorial].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1861-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560