Middlesex-London-1893 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19579

Map Date:

? 1893

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3480 (270)

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Auchterarder, London, Westminster

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ320811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'The London Daily Express. Map.'

Comments on map:

Undated: BM RD 15 Sep 1893 [blue]. Emphasis on hotels. Map only extends east to Custom House and Liverpool St station [not named as such]: rather a curious confection. Street numbers given in a few principal streets, e.g. Strand, Oxford St, Lombard St.

Scale:

1:18,103*

Map-maker:

F. Boothby, 27 Cursitor St, Chancery Lane, W.C. [printed for proprietor], [? Daily Express [pb]].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

48.0 x 37.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

other: Intended to be coloured red for ambassadors & consols, yellow for bankers, and blue for hotels, but these are omited from the copy recorded here.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

cathedral/principal church only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Known copies of map:

H.259: BLML Maps 3480(270) [Daily Express: H.259(1)]; BLML Maps 3480(269) [1894 calendar: H.259(2)].

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, museums

Parkland:

public parks

Service and professional:

banks: [Several in the city, but none in west end: not even Coutts].

Waterbodies:

shown

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

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