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Middlesex-Stepney: Bethnal Green-1703

CBTM:
18331
Map Date:
1703
Repository reference:
[Private collection]
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
Stepney: Bethnal Green
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ347828
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'An Actual Survey of the Hamlet of Bethnal Green in the Parish of Stepney Taken in the year M.DCC.III. ... Joel Gascoyne Surveyor': names churchwarden.
Comments on map:
Recorded from London Topographical Society facsimile 155 (1995); scale and dimensions derived from William Ravenhill's data.
Scale:
1:5352
Map-maker:
Joel Gascoyne [sv], I. Harris [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
62.5 x 49.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
general legend: Bounds of this hamlet, buildings, gardens, common sewers, high and drift wayes, ponds, foot wayes.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Bethnal House is pictorial.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.28.18.a, 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 (E)C17:28(86), RGS Eng & Wales S.785, Tower Hamlets library map 2427 [London Topographical Society, 1995].
River and foreshore features:
misc: Common sewers, 'High Fountain'.
Gardens:
shown: Some named.
Antiquities:
Y
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
To left of title: youth in doublet and hose (archaic for 1703) talking to lady with ruff and bustle; to right of title: elderly barefoot man with long stick walks a dog.
Commons:
shown
Borders:
decorative
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
cow-keeping, pounds/pinfolds: [Cow Yard].
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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