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Middlesex-Kensington-1846

CBTM:
21275
Map Date:
1846
Repository reference:
London Metropolitan Archives Acc.2558/MW/C/31/555
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:
'Map of the parish of St Mary Abbotts Kensington, delineating its ecclesiastical & parochial divisions. 1846.'
Comments on map:
Rather light on text, but thorough on land-use ornament, bringing out its use for market gardens. Scale graduated in chains: 1:5940 seems possible fit.
Scale:
1:5940
Map-maker:
A. Johnston [sv], J. Blore, Esq. [corrected by], J. Emslie [eng], W. Wheeler, 9 Wine Office Court, Fleet St, and E. Daw, 114 Fetter Lane, London [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
66.8 x 99.5
Number of parts:
3
Legends:
boundaries
Colouring:
boundaries: Hand-coloured, and not fitted to engraved detail.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
shown
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
ecclesiastical districts: [Hand-coloured, and not fitted to engraved detail].
Known copies of map:
London Metropolitan Archives Acc.2558/MW/C/31/555 [2 copies].
Industry:
bricks/tiles
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Waterbodies:
shown
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Dedicee of map:
Ven. Archdeacon Sinclair and the Board of Trustees.
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown: Chequer convention used, as on Potter's map of Marylebone [Exeter 21273]. Named, too.
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
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