Middlesex-Stepney-1703
CBTM:
18328
Map Date:
1703
Repository reference:
[Private collection]
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
Stepney
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ358812
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'An Actuall Survey of the Parish of St Dunstan Stepney alias Stebunheath... Taken Anno Dom. 1703 By Ioel Gascoyne. Engraven by Iohn Harris.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from London Topographical Society facsimile 155 (1995); scale and dimensions derived from William Ravenhill's data. Includes list of vicar and churchwardens.
Scale:
1:5544
Map-maker:
Joel Gascoyne [sv], John Harris [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
62.0 x 25.0, 47.0 x 25.0, 62.0 x 51.0, 47.0 x 51.0, 62.0 x 50.0, 47.0 x 51.0, 47.0 x 51.0, 16.0 x 12.0.
Number of parts:
8
Legends:
general legend: Bounds of the hamlets; buildings; gardens; common sewers; high and driftways; ponds; trees; foot wayes; note about numbers on map referring to tables.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, river stairs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown, misc: Osiers.
Public/administrative boundaries:
hamlet, boundary markers
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.28.18.a, BOL Gough Maps 17 Fol 27B [general map]; BL Crace.Port.XVI.26,28,32,33; BL M.T.6.b.1(28) [photo of variant edn in Brasenose Coll, Oxford]; Tower Hamlets no.421 [uncertain status]; Tower Hamlets library map 325 [not Whitechapel]; Tower Hamlets library [numerous copies, indexed under constituent hamlets]; BOL G.A.Middx.4o 49 [1890-1: from Hill & Frere, ed, Memorials of Stepney Parish, pb Billing & Son]; BL [London Argus, I, 20, 2:10:97, 8]; BOL C17:70 London c.6 [1972: in Phillipa Glanville, London in maps, pl.22]; BOL (E)C17:28(86), RGS Eng & Wales S.785, Tower Hamlets library map 2427 [London Topographical Society, 1995].
Industry:
ship yards, rope walk, textiles: [Tenters].
River and foreshore features:
misc: 'Fountain'.
Gardens:
shown: Some named.
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Commons:
shown
Symbolic elements:
In title: top is St Dunstan pinching the nose of the devil with hot tongs; left and right are putti; bottom left is reclining male figure with paddle, bottom right is reclining female figure with emptying jar and cornucopia.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Watch House [pictorial].
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Numerous ships in River Thames.
Miscellaneous physical features:
'Old Breach the forland noe a Place to lay Timber'.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1848-50
1:1056
1:5280
1:10,560
Skeleton survey
1869
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
1893-4
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
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