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Middlesex-Stepney: St Dunstan-1720

CBTM:
19406
Map Date:
[1720]
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] Library
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
Stepney: St Dunstan
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ358812
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'An actuall survey of the parish of St Dunstan Stepney alias Stebunheath being one of the ten parishes in the county of Middlesex adjacent to the city of London'.
Comments on map:
In: John Stow, revised John Strype, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark, 6th edition, London: Innys, etc, 2 vols, 1754-5, Vol II (1755), f.p. 47.
Scale:
1:21,600
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
28.3 x 35.3
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
watermills, (unspecified type): [Seem to be windmills by riverside on west side of Isle Of Dogs].
Water transport infrastructure:
river stairs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Woodland:
orchards, misc: Osiers.
Public/administrative boundaries:
hamlet, Parish
Known copies of map:
[In book form:] BL 1791.d.5, HLL 942.1 [1720]; BL 189.F.10, BOL E 10.31, Douce S.Subt 45, 46, TNA [PRO] Library [open access] [1754-5, ed 6]; [loose:] BL 189.f.10, Crace Port.XVI.27b, BLML Maps 3495(11), Tower Hamlets library maps 423, 567, 569 [1755] [unclear which of these are Exeter 19406 and which are Exeter 19407].
Industry:
ship yards
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Symbolic elements:
Lion's head [?]: at top of cartouche.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping in river.
Ferries:
ferry
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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