Middlesex-London: Tower-1720
CBTM:
19385
Map Date:
[1720]
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] Library
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
London: Tower, St Catherines
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ338815
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
*
Map title:
(1) A map of the Tower Liberty'; (2) 'The Tower and St Catherins taken from the 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 I (1754), f.p. 69. First sheet, in 4 parts, of Tower Liberty is at 1:2376.
Scale:
1:3168
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
36.0 x 28.5, 35.5 x 28.7
Number of parts:
5
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Navy Office is pictorial.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively, (pictorial): Mostly Anglican: includes Danes Church.
Public buildings:
central government: [Navy Office, Victualling Office].
Penal:
pillory, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: [Tower: shown pictorially, in contrast to general planimetric treatment].
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].
Industry:
misc: Coopers Yard.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Symbolic elements:
Face: at bottom of cartouche on St Catherines sheet.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial ships in river.
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