Middlesex-London-1666 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22182

Map Date:

1666

Repository reference:

BOL Gough Maps London 7

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Basingstoke, London

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ326811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'A map or groundplott of the citty of London, with the suburbes thereof so far as the Lord Mayors iurisdiction doeth extend, by which is exactly demonstrated the present condition of it, since the last sad accident of fire, the blanke space signifying the burnt part, & where the houses be those places yet standing. Ao 1666.'

Comments on map:

Very similar to Hollar's other fire map [Exeter 18481], and only distinguished from it in detail by different positing of lettering, etc, and by the lack of a smaller inset map.

Scale:

1:10,080

Map-maker:

W. Hollar [author].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

33.7 x 22.8

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial: City churches in plan.

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, river stairs, wharfs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial), drill halls: Gates named.

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Known copies of map:

Darlington & Howgego no.20: BL, BOL Gough Maps London 7.

Gardens:

shown

Service and professional:

Inns of Court

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in river.

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1868-1876

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-7

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1848-51

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey