Middlesex-London-1877
CBTM:
22209
Map Date:
? 1877
Repository reference:
BOL J.Maps 251 [2]
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
Bedford: Bedford St Mary, London
Map type:
Utility
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ326811
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Comments on map:
This appears to be a version of the Standidge-printed City of London map, Hyde no.144: dated 1877 in Bodleian cards, but not on map, which includes Holborn Viaduct Station (1874). This copy has a legend for blue lines and arrows for sewers and direction of flow, but these are not printed.
Scale:
1:2640
Map-maker:
Standidge & Co., Litho, Old Jewry, London [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
125.5 x 71.5
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
sanitation, transport: Sewers [not printed], railways below and above ground.
Colouring:
Buildings
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Lack of detail.
Water transport infrastructure:
docks
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Named in gothic.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough: [City of London].
Known copies of map:
Ralph Hyde's no. 144, noted as copied from H.36: GL ['1883', sewers: H.144(1)]; GL ['1880', fire hydrants: H.144(2)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1872, sewers: H.144(3)]; Camden [not in H.]; [1893, sewers: H.144(4)]; GL [1902: H.144(5)]; BOL J.Maps 251[2] ['1877'].
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
museums, libraries/newsrooms
Service and professional:
Inns of Court, Bank of England
Clubs and societies:
learned societies, trade and livery company halls, unspecified
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Vaults.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Arms plus one griffin to left of 'Scale of feet': arms only as centre to compass boss, with motto and two griffins in north pointer].
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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