Middlesex-London-1667 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18541

Map Date:

1667

Repository reference:

University of Exeter Geography Department

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

London

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ326811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'An exact surveigh of the streets lanes and churches contained within the ruines of the city of London first described in six plats by John Leake ... Reduced here into one intire plat by John Leake...'

Comments on map:

Recorded from Fisher-Margary (1981). Surveyed December 1667; engraved 1667; on the Artillery Ground is 'The Right Honourable Sr William Turner the Lord Major Ao. 1669'; note bottom left that is published by Nathaneall Brooke, Stationer, with description of the wards. The reference to churches, livery halls and public buildings includes statistics as to area and buildings destroyed. Scale measured as 3.0 inches to 1000 feet, 1:4000.

Scale:

1:3996

Map-maker:

Wenscelaus Hollar [eng], John Leake, William Marr, William Leybourn, John Jennings, Thomas Streete & Richard Shortgrave ['described'], Nathaneall Brooke, Stationer [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

77.3 x 51.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, river stairs: Named.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges

Woodland:

orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

Ward

Known copies of map:

DH21. London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [DH21(1)]; BL [1669: DH21(2)]; Westminster Archives Box 65, no.19 [Whishaw, 1833: DH21(b): transcript]; Gough Maps 21 Fol 37, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1796: Stockdale/Neele: DH21(c): transcript]; BOL (E)CC17:70 London (643), CUL Maps.aa.72.96.3 [London Topographical Society publication 104, 1969]; BOL (E)C17:70 London (1240), BOL (E)C17:70 London (1250), RGS 14.B.282 [1981: Harry Margary & Guildhall Library, Early maps of London, 1553-1667: intro by John Fisher].

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Round city arms.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

'The Prospect of the Citty, as it appeared from the opposite Southwarke side, in the fire time.'

Commons:

shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Boats and shipping in river.

Arms and heraldry:

livery companies, municipal: [City companies' arms are placed on the sites on their halls: an unusual arrangement].

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