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Middlesex-London: Farringdon Without Ward: St Sepulchre-1858

CBTM:
23214
Map Date:
3.1858
Repository reference:
London Metropolitan Archives [ex City of London Record Office] Secondary's Plan no.24
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
London: Farringdon Without Ward: St Sepulchre
Map type:
Ward
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ317816
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3281
Map title:
'Plan of Farringdon Without Ward Parish of St Sepulchre'.
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]:
106.0 x 141.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, land-use: Open space, including yards, pale green.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
house numbers
Buildings:
shown, archways, stables/coach houses, public buildings emphasised: Public buildings darker carmine, churches dark beige. ['X' for archways]. Stable Yard, Holborn Viaduct, Metropolitian Meat & Poultry Market, railway curtilages (unnamed, pecked lines), and associated streets, etc, added subsequently in red: affected property tinted orange.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Penal:
jails/reformatories, misc: Sites of former prisons.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, infirmaries, workhouses, misc: Soup Kitchen.
Education and academic:
schools
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. 84: London Metropolitan Archives [ex CLRO] (Secondary's Plan 24) [HW84].
Industry:
abbatoirs
Symbolic elements:
Sword: as centre of direction-star.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Cemeteries:
shown
Other land-uses & land-cover:
'vacant ground'
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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