Middlesex-London: Bread Street Ward-1858 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23199

Map Date:

3.1858

Repository reference:

London Metropolitan Archives [ex City of London Record Office] Secondary's Plan no.8

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

London: Bread Street Ward

Map type:

Ward

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ322811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3281

Map title:

'Plan of Bread Street Ward'.

Comments on map:

'Enlarged from the Outline Maps of the Ordnance Survey'.

Scale:

1:528

Map-maker:

Saml Angell, Michael Meredith [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

90.7 x 59.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, land-use: Open space, including yards, pale green.

Road names:

generally: At bottom, Earl Street has been renamed Queen Victoria Street in red.

Building names:

house numbers

Buildings:

shown, archways, public buildings emphasised: Public buildings darker carmine, churches dark beige. ['X' for archways].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public/administrative boundaries:

Ward: [Boundaries not shown as such, but mapped detail stops at boundary].

Known copies of map:

Ralph Hyde's ward map catalogue, no. 34: London Metropolitan Archives [ex CLRO] (Secondary's Plan 8) [HW34].

Clubs and societies:

trade and livery company halls

Symbolic elements:

Sword: as centre of direction-star.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete