Middlesex-London: Tower Hamlets-1797 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23291

Map Date:

1797

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.21.3

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

London: Tower Hamlets

Map type:

Utility

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ342804

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'Plan of the proposed London Docks.'

Comments on map:

Surveyed 1796, engraved 1797. The interest of Exeter 23291 and 23292 is in showing in detail the streets and buildings due to be demolished to make way for the docks. This copy is on oversize paper, with neat manuscript 'Explanations' dated 13 May 1799.

Scale:

1:2880

Map-maker:

David Alexander [sv], W. Faden [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

49.2 x 37.8 [map: plate 55.2 x 42.7].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

house numbers

Buildings:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, river stairs

Sanitary and utility information:

sewers: Open Sewers.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.21.22.1.

Industry:

engineering, food/drink

Gardens:

shown

Magnetic data:

diagram

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Title on very elongated St John's Cross.

Borders:

decorative: Fine rulings, on 'sheet' with 'pins'.

Estate boundary ownership:

fragmentary: [Area proposed to be taken for docks].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1872

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1894

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560