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Middlesex-London: Aldersgate Ward-1756

CBTM:
22259
Map Date:
[1756]
Repository reference:
BL 190.f.11-12
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
London: Aldersgate Ward
Map type:
Ward
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ321816
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3281
Map title:
'Aldersgate Ward with its divisions into precincts and parishes and the Liberty of St Martins le Grand, according to a new survey.'
Comments on map:
In William Maitland 'and others', The history and survey of London from its foundation to the present time, II, London: Osborne, etc, 1756, f.p 760.
Scale:
1:2400
Map-maker:
B. Cole [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
38.0 x 23.2
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some public, etc, buildings pictorial.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively, (pictorial): Anglican are pictorial.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish, Ward, misc: Precincts.
Known copies of map:
Ralph Hyde's ward map catalogue, no. 3: Maitland, 1756 (II, fp761), 1760, 1772, 1775 [William Maitland, The history of London from its foundation to the present time (London: Osborne 1756, 1760), or Maitland & John Etick (same title) (London: Wilkie 1772, 1775) (also English Architecture, or the publick buildings of London and Westminster, London: Osborne 1760) [Eng Arch: BL K.60.g.5]
Gardens:
shown
Service and professional:
insurance offices
Antiquities:
Line of city wall: 'battlement' effect, not described.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Clubs and societies:
trade and livery company halls
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom left: St Anne Within Aldersgate; bottom right: St Botolph Without Aldersgate, rebuilt 1754, from north-east.
Arms and heraldry:
dedicee of map
Cemeteries:
shown
Dedicee of map:
William Benn, Esq., Alderman of Aldersgate Ward in 1754.
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