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Middlesex-London: Aldersgate Ward-1772

CBTM:
22246
Map Date:
[1772]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 203.ee.22
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
London: Aldersgate Ward
Map type:
Ward
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
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:
Recorded from John Noorthouck, A new history of London, London: Baldwin, 1773, f.p. 543. Ralph Hyde attributes this to Thomas Bowen, on the grounds of similarity to the Queenhithe and Vintry map [Exeter 18382].
Scale:
1:3600*
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
23.5 x 17.8
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some public 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.4: BL PP 5437 [London Magazine, vol 35, 4:66 [HW4(1)]]; Noorthouck 1772/3 (fp 543) [HW4(2)]: BL 1786.d.3, maps Ref P.3 [3 plates missing], G.3483*, 190.b.17 [1 pl misg], BLML Maps 203.ee.22 [John Noorthouck, A new history of London including Westminster & Southwark (London: Baldwin 1773); BLML Maps 3495(9).
Service and professional:
insurance offices
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.
Cemeteries:
shown
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