Middlesex-London: Shoreditch-1720 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19409

Map Date:

[1720]

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

London: Shoreditch, Norton Folgate, Cripplegate Without

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ337819

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

*

Map title:

'Shoreditch, Norton Folgate, and Crepplegate Without, taken from ye last survey with corrections'.

Comments on map:

In: John Stow, revised John Strype, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark, 6th edition, London: Innys, etc, 2 vols, 1754-5, Vol II (1755), f.p. 47.

Scale:

1:4800

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

35.1 x 28.8

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Includes Methodist Meetg, north of Moorfields; Anglican is pictorial.

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, Ward

Known copies of map:

[In book form:] BL 1791.d.5, HLL 942.1 [1720]; BL 189.F.10, BOL E 10.31, Douce S.Subt 45, 46, TNA [PRO] Library [open access] [1754-5, ed 6].

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Commons:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Dog Houses.

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1871-2

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1894

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560