Middlesex-Shoreditch-1745
CBTM:
18672
Map Date:
1745
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.XXI.5
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
Shoreditch
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ330828
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'An actual survey of the parish of St Leonard, in Shoreditch, Middlesex, taken in the year 1745, by Peter Chasserau Surveyor. Richard Bowles. Peter Buckmaster. Churchwardens.'
Comments on map:
Lengthy reference, with a few summary descriptions of former monastic establishment and ancient spring now a cold bath, list of charities, total of houses in each liberty.
Scale:
1:4752
Map-maker:
Peter Chasserau [sv], James Cote in Hatton Garden [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
54.4 x 49.7
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally: Yards as well as streets.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals
Markets and exchanges:
bazaars, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
boundary markers
Known copies of map:
BOL Gough Maps London 28, 29, (E)C17:70 London (360), Gough Maps 41D, Fol 55, Gough Middlesex 35; BLML K.Top. 21.5 [?1798]; BL 577.h.17 [in H. Ellis, History & Antiquities of Shoreditch (London: Nicholls, 1798)]; Bishopgate L.26.22 (723) [reprinted by the churchwardens, 10:9:1835; 1:4752]; Hackney Archives [repro].
Industry:
textiles: [Tenters].
Gardens:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary for location purposes
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Symbolic elements:
Elderly head side-on at top of cartouche; to right thereon is figure of Justice, with sword and scales.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
The Barking Dogs [on south-west parish boundary: a noisy dog-kennel or a pub?].
Cemeteries:
shown
Other land-uses & land-cover:
misc: Hachured mounds might be dunghills, but not described as such.
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
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