Middlesex-Westminster: Belgravia-1830 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19615

Map Date:

? 1830

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 4178 (4), Maps 3495 (115)

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Westminster: Belgravia, Pimlico

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ292782

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Comments on map:

Composite record from two copies in different states, and with different coverages. Only Pimlico and Belgravia [neither so named] are mapped in detail. Attribution to Jas Tingle is on Maps 3495 (115) copy only. A catalogue attributes authorship to E.T. Ward.

Scale:

1:3960

Map-maker:

Jas Tingle [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

67.7 x 88.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only: Some houses numbered around Lowndes Street and Eaton Place area.

Buildings:

building infill omitted, public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

barracks

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

BL Crace Port.X.29 [1830]; BLML Maps 3495(115) ['1850': 'imperfect']; BLML maps 4178(4) [1850??].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

misc: United Service Club.

Monuments:

statues: [Statue of Achilles].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

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