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Middlesex-London: Lime Street Ward-1855

CBTM:
23216
Map Date:
16.1.1855
Repository reference:
London Metropolitan Archives [ex City of London Record Office] Secondary's Plan no.26
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
London: Lime Street Ward
Map type:
Ward
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ332811
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3281
Map title:
'Plan of Lime Street Ward'.
Comments on map:
'Enlarged from the Outline Maps of the Ordnance Survey'. Unusually, scale is explicitly stated to be 10 feet to one mile.
Scale:
1:528
Map-maker:
Saml Angell, Michael Meredith [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
73.2 x 90.7
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, land-use: Open space, including yards, pale green.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
house numbers
Buildings:
shown, archways, steps to buildings
Markets and exchanges:
markets
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. 91: London Metropolitan Archives [ex CLRO] (Secondary's Plan 26) [HW91].
Symbolic elements:
Sword: as centre of direction-star.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Business & commercial:
East India Company
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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