Middlesex-London: Walbrook Ward-1855
CBTM:
23220
Map Date:
16.1.1855
Repository reference:
London Metropolitan Archives [ex City of London Record Office] Secondary's Plan no.31
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
London: Walbrook Ward
Map type:
Ward
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ327810
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3281
Map title:
'Plan of Walbrook 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]:
91.2 x 59.3
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, land-use: Open space, including yards, pale green.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only, house numbers: Mansion House.
Buildings:
shown, archways, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings: Public buildings darker carmine, churches dark beige. ['X' for archways]. Some property tinted orange, perhaps added later to indicate demolitions.
Sanitary and utility information:
fire stations
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
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. 110: London Metropolitan Archives [ex CLRO] (Secondary's Plan 31) [HW110].
Clubs and societies:
trade and livery company halls, unspecified
Symbolic elements:
Sword: as centre of direction-star.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
You can download the pdf version of this map
here