Middlesex-Westminster: Pimlico-1827 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23478

Map Date:

7.1827

Repository reference:

Kensington Library, local studies

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Westminster: Pimlico

Map type:

Utility

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ290781

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'Plan of London in the vicinity of the River Thames between Pimlico, Chelsea Hospital, and the Penitentiary at Millbank....'

Comments on map:

Made by Potter following order of Commissioners of Sewers in 1815, before alterations made between 1815 and 1827. Entry from photocopy, from British Museum G.Maps.X.23.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

Peter Potter [sv], J. Nelson [dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

69.5 x 58.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

water works, misc: Sluice House.

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds: [Play Ground for the Westminster Scholars].

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Kensington Local Studies [photo]; BL Maps 56.e.20, Bishopgate L.18, BOL C17:70 London c.5, CUL Atlas.5.97.32 [1971: extract only in B.R. Curle & P.K. Mera, historical atlas of Kensington & Chelsea, Kensington & Chelsea Public Libraries].

Industry:

distilling, food/drink, misc: White Lead Works.

Parkland:

misc: Ranelagh Gardens, with Rotunda: noted as taken from Horwood's map of London of 1794.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes: [Open spaces].

Waterbodies:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

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