Middlesex-London: Farringdon Within Ward-1904
CBTM:
23221
Map Date:
1904
Repository reference:
London Metropolitan Archives [ex City of London Record Office] Surveyor's City Lands Plan no. 2000
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
London: Farringdon Within Ward
Map type:
Ward
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ329814
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3281
Map title:
'Plan of the ward of Farringdon Within 1904'.
Comments on map:
Bottom centre is list of Aldermen, Deputies, Councillors and Wardle Clark: Beadle and Coroner's Officer, in red, has been stuck on afterwards. 'Artistic' lettering, more suited to an Architect's drawing than a 'serious' map.
Scale:
1:960
Map-maker:
Banister Fletcher & Sons, 19 New Bridge St, Ludgate Circus, E.C., Architects & Surveyors [authors], C.F. Kell & Son Photo-Litho, 8 Furnival St, Holborn, E.C. [lith].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
89.3 x 101.3
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
boundaries: Parishes tinted, by hand.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
building infill omitted, archways, steps to buildings
Water transport infrastructure:
piers, wharfs
Sanitary and utility information:
public lavatories: [Urinal].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, misc: Chapter House.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish, Ward: [Parishes tinted].
Known copies of map:
Ralph Hyde's ward map catalogue, no. 77: London Metropolitan Archives [ex CLRO] (Surveyors City Lands Plan 2000) [HW77].
Railways:
routes, platforms, rails, passenger stations
Service and professional:
newspaper offices
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Mock-1600-ish with putti-face at bottom. Definitely revivalist.
Clubs and societies:
trade and livery company halls
Monuments:
statues: [Peel's Statue].
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Other land-uses & land-cover:
'vacant ground'
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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