Middlesex-Stepney: Limehouse-1703
CBTM:
18329
Map Date:
? 1703
Repository reference:
[Private collection]
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
Stepney: Limehouse
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ367811
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'An actual survey of the hamlet of Lime-house in the parish of Stepney ... by Joel Gascoyne.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from London Topographical Society facsimile 155 (1995); scale and dimensions derived from William Ravenhill's data. Churchwarden named below title.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
Joel Gascoyne [sv], J. Harris [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
63.0 x 54.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
general legend: Buildings, gardens, high and drift wayes, foot wayes, ponds, common sewers, gates and stiles, trees, pasture grounds.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Two houses shown pictorially.
Water transport infrastructure:
docks
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
boundary mereings: [One only].
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.28.18.a, BOL Gough Maps London 19, 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].
Industry:
lime/cement, rope walk, ship yards: Ships in graving docks.
River and foreshore features:
misc: Common sewers.
Gardens:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Borders:
decorative
Symbolic elements:
Royal arms above title; ships on either side.
Arms and heraldry:
royal arms
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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