Middlesex-Westminster-1761 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22204

Map Date:

1.1761

Repository reference:

BOL Gough Maps 41G, fol 1

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Battersea, Westminster

Map type:

Highways

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ301790

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'A plan of part of the ancient city of Westminster, from College Street to Whitehall, and from the Thames to St James's Park, in which are laid down all the new streets that have been built & other alterations made since the building of Westminster Bridge.'

Comments on map:

Scale measured as 1 inch to 85 feet, 1:980: perhaps 1:990 was meant.

Scale:

1:990

Map-maker:

C. Fourdrinier & Co., Charing Cross [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

72.5 x 52.3 [printed area: plate 74.0 x 54.0].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

Buildings: Old and new buildings.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Most areas are swathes of hatching with no details at all of buildings.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Shown in plan; also Dean's Yard.

Public buildings:

central government, misc: Westminster Hall, etc: shown inn plan.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets: Shown in plan.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Maps 41G Fol 1, CUL Maps.AA.73.75.1, Westminster Archives Box 64 no.12, also L.13(1761).

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents

Waterbodies:

shown

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Stairs flanking bridge.

Tenement boundaries group:

very incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1868-70

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560