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

CBTM:

23217

Map Date:

3.1858

Repository reference:

London Metropolitan Archives [ex City of London Record Office] Secondary's Plan no.27

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

London: Portsoken Ward

Map type:

Ward

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ336813

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3281

Map title:

'Plan of Portsoken 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]:

99.0 x 173.0

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]. Large group of buildings shown at top of map, unnamed except for 'North Area', 'West Area', etc. Some areas tinted orange, presumably to indicate later demolitions.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges

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. 95: London Metropolitan Archives [ex CLRO] (Secondary's Plan 27) [HW95].

Railways:

routes, named, misc: London and Blackwall Railway: only shows outer limits and some indications of viaduct arches.

Symbolic elements:

Sword: as centre of direction-star.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Other land-uses & land-cover:

'vacant ground'

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete