Middlesex-London-1746

18545

30.9.1746

University of Exeter Geography Department

Middlesex

London, Westminster, Southwark

General Purpose

whole built-up area

TQ320811

TQ 3181

'A plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark with the contiguous buildings from an actual survey by John Rocque'.

Recorded from Howgego-Margary facsimile (1971): the index is treated separately, at Exeter 18544. List of abbreviations below scale; dedication includes key to wards, a neat space-saving device in the midst of rampant over-ornamentation.

1:2400

John Rocque [sv], John Pine [eng], John Pine and John Tinney [pb].

engraved

394 x 201 [average size of plates about 49.2 x 68.8].

24

generally

royal palaces, important buildings only

noticeably generalised: No back details at all in built-up parts; infill is by distinctive 'brick' effect.

shown

docks, river stairs, wharfs: Both docks and dry docks.

reservoirs, water works

shown comprehensively

town hall/administrative, central government, internal revenue

gallows, jails/reformatories, misc: Gallows is at Tyburn [in use], with 'Where Soldiers are Shot' close by.

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, volunteer parade grounds, town walls

almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, workhouses

schools, further educational/colleges

exchanges, markets

sports grounds

scattered tree cover, orchards

Ward

BLML Maps 3480(293), BL 1.Tab.23, BL Crace Port.III.104, (street index BL 186.a.4), GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1737-46: DH96(1)]; BOL C17:40 a.3 [1746: Pine & Tinney: DH ?]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1749.c: DH96(2)]; BLML maps 183.h.1 [photo, 1:3025], GL, RGS Portfolio 169 [1761, pub Pine & Tinney: DH96(3)]; Westminster Archives Map Cabt B [photo of Marylebone area, 1761, evid ex DH96(3)]; Hertfordshire RO D/EP P8 [10 sheets only]; TNA [PRO] MR 1/874 [DH96(????)]; PC [1746: DH96(3a)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1770.c: DH96(4)]; [Not found: Jeffreys/Sayer & Bennett, 1775: DH96(5)]; Bishopsgate Institute L.18 [evidently original]; Westminster Archives Ashbridge 61 [Marylebone portion only]; BLML Maps 3480(331), Bishopsgate Institute FFL 18, BOL (E)C17:70 London (434), CUL Atlas.2.91.19, RGS Eng & Wales S.1(13), Southwark Library Map Cabt 1, Maps 27-38, Westminster Archives Reference Librarians Room Ashbridge 061 ff lower cupboard, Westminster Archives Map Cabt C ['local sheets'] Map Cabt A, 044 [ditto, not local], Camden 85.23 1746, Lambeth-Minet 2/1746/M361 [AP657-663], Westminster Archives Board Room Drawer no.4 [LTS, 1913-19: DH96.i], London Metropolitan Archives open access photocopy RM 7 [photocopy of London Topographical Society 1913-18]; BLML Maps 198.e.47, CUL S696.b.94.39, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [reduced fac, in W. Crawford Snowden, London 200 years ago (1946/8): DH96(ii)]; CUL Maps.bb.73.95.4 [1959: Hammersmith portion only]; BLML Maps 3480(462), CUL Atlas.0.96.41GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [DH96(iii): 1759, pub Historic Urban Plans, Ithaca, NY, 1967]; BLML maps 177.a.1/1 [index at Maps 56.d.23], Bishopsgate Institute Map Drawer, BOL (E) C17:70 London (1017), CUL Atlas.2.97.14, Maps.aa.19.G.18, RGS Portfolio 7, Southwark Library S.C.9126 [Harry Margary Facsimile, 1971: DH96.iv]; BOL C17:70 London c.11=G1/C17.5, CUL Atlas.5.98.7, RGS 14.A.409 [A-Z of Georgian London: 1:6000: London Topographical Society 126, 1982]; CUL S696.b.98.132, Southwark Library S.C.912.Dav [Andrew Davis, The Map of London from 1746 to the present day, London: Batsford, 1987: John Rocque with modern A-Z mapping]; CUL Atlas 3.74.2 [uncertain]; CUL Maps.bb.999.74.2 [Rocque's proposals for his survey]; Hackney Archives [repro] V.96.

bricks/tiles, food/drink, glass, lime/cement, ship yards, textiles, timber, misc: [Tenters, Vinegar Yards], Distillery, White Lead Yard: many industrial premises are 'yards'.

shown

theatres, etc, misc: Maypole.

private parks and ornamental ground

shown, ducking ponds: [Ducking Pond at Mile End Old Town].

abstract decorative: Round scales (B3) and dedication (G3); that round scales also contains a list of abbreviations.

shown

decorative

post offices

(1) on sheet B3, the cartouche with scales and abbreviations includes also a direction indicator and two puffing winds, and a putti with surveying and drawing instruments. (2) on D3-E3 is the main title, with City of London arms and usual supporters at top, ? Westminster arms to left and Southwark arms to right, naked male figure doing something with a pole to left, with to his right what looks like a discharging wide-bore pipe, or sewer, and further to right is a nude lady holding a pole (the arms conveniently placed to avoid anything too indiscreet), and looking down at a nude infant showing her a shell: all this bottom stuff is on the borderline of Interpretation by Schoolboys. (3) round dedication are seven nude boys: (i) kneeling on bale, (ii) with? censer, (iii) with leopardskin, then a ship's stern, (iv) with cornucopia apparently delivering digestive biscuits, then City arms, (v) with crown on head, and cap on pole, (vi) leaning on jar pouring forth liquid, (vii) with 'wings' [? Mercury] hat, and moneybag (and the only one Exposing his Person), (viii) apparently a black rather than a shadowed boy, manoeuvering a barrel, with two more barrels in the background. (vi and viii are looking across at each other.)

[Stable yards and mews (including royal mews), including 'Dunghill Mewfe' off Cockspur Street].

Watch Houses, Ld Mayors Dog H.

Boats and extensive shipping on river, and also in Upper Wet Dock [sheet H3].

dedicee of map, royal arms, municipal: [Hoare's assumed].

shown

Sir Richard Hoare, Lord Mayor and Alderman of Farringdon Without, and the Aldermen of the City of London (duly listed, with their wards: the dedication thereby serves as a key to wards).