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

CBTM:

23201

Map Date:

3.1858

Repository reference:

London Metropolitan Archives [ex City of London Record Office] Secondary's Plan no.10

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

London: Broad Street Ward

Map type:

Ward

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ329814

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3281

Map title:

'Plan of Broad 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]:

117.5 x 90.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

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

Road names:

generally

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

Markets and exchanges:

auctions, exchanges, misc: Bank of Commerce, South Sea House.

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. 42: London Metropolitan Archives [ex CLRO] (Secondary's Plan 10) [HW42].

Service and professional:

banks, Bank of England, insurance offices

Clubs and societies:

trade and livery company halls, unspecified

Symbolic elements:

Sword: as centre of direction-star.

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Drapers Gardens and Throgmorton Street have been superimposed later, in red.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete