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Middlesex-Westminster-1841

CBTM:
21269
Map Date:
? 1841
Repository reference:
London Metropolitan Archives Acc.2558/MW/C/31/555
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
Chelsea, Westminster
Map type:
Utility
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ295795
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'Map or plan shewing in part all the highways, streets, lanes, ways, public passages and places in the several parishes of St John the Evangelist, St Margaret, St George Hanover Sqre, St Martin in the Fields, & St James, all in the City & Liberties of Westminster, Privy Gardens Whitehall and the Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, also the Parish of St Luke, Chelsea, all in the County of Middlesex, into which the Company of Proprietors of the Vauxhall Water Works formerly the South London Waterworks seek to be enabled to lay pipes, mains and feeders for the supply of water...'
Comments on map:
Map itself shows streets and little else. Manuscript note that received at 2.20 on 30 November 1841 by the Clerk of the Peace.
Scale:
1:14,908
Map-maker:
Alvey, litho, 128 London Road [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
44.8 x 29.3
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
royal palaces
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks
Sanitary and utility information:
water works
Places of Worship:
principal Anglican/established only, misc: Catholic Ch in Chelsea.
Public buildings:
central government
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
London Metropolitan Archives Acc.2558/MW/C/31/555.
Leisure and entertainment:
art galleries
Parkland:
public parks
Ordnance Survey's
1848-50
1:1056
1:5280
1:10,560
Skeleton survey
1864
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
1893-4
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
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
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