Middlesex-London-1666
CBTM:
18481
Map Date:
1666
Repository reference:
BOL (E) C17:70 London (642)
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
London, Westminster
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ320811
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
[Title to main map:] 'A map or ground plot of the Citty of London and the suburbes thereof, that is to say, all which is within the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor or properlie called London by which is exactly demonstrated the present condition therof since the last sad accident of fire. The blanke space signifying the burnt part & where the houses are exprest, those places yet standing.' [Title to subsidiary map:] 'A general map of the whole Citty of London with Westminster & all the suburbs, by which may be computed the proportion of that which is burnt, with the other parts standing.'
Comments on map:
Includes London and Westminster at about 18 % of the scale of the main map, with the secondary title.
Scale:
1:10,080
Map-maker:
W. Hollar [eng], John Overton, White Horse, Little Brittanne, Little St Batholomew Gate [pb].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
34.5 x 27.0
Number of parts:
2
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only, royal palaces
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: At least, what's still standing.
Water transport infrastructure:
river stairs, wharfs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Defence and military:
(pictorial), castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, volunteer parade grounds
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
DH.19. Bodleian Library Ash [Sutherland coll] C.IV*, part VII, (E)C17:70 London (642), GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [DH19(1)]; Windsor Castle [DH19(2)]; [reputed state with no imprint, not located: DH19(3)]; RGS Eng & Wales S.444 [Guildhall facsimile no 2, 1974: DH19.i]; British Library Maps 3480(283), 1784.c.29, CUL Maps.bb.17.G.163, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Westminster Archives Box 65, no.12 [Bowen 1756/75: DH19(a)]; Bodleian Library G.A.Lond 4o 39, CUL Maps.a.17.G.1 [Noorthouck, 1773: DH19(b): in his History, under DH157 below]; GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [Guildhall Library facsim: DH19.i].
Gardens:
shown: [Hatton Garden, etc].
Service and professional:
Inns of Court
Commons:
shown
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Shipping in river on both maps, though not in the same places.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
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
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