Middlesex-Westminster: St Clement Danes-1720 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18336

Map Date:

[1720]

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Westminster: St Clement Danes, St Mary Savoy, Rolls Liberty, Lincolns Inn

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ308812

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'A mapp of the parishes of St Clement Danes, St Mary Savoy, with the Rolls Liberty and Lincolns Inn, taken from the last survey, with corrections and additions.'

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. 112.

Scale:

1:2640

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

35.5 x 29.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some public buildings shown pictorially.

Water transport infrastructure:

river stairs: [River stairs each with boats tied up].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges

Public/administrative boundaries:

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:] Westminster Archives Box 22, no.1.

Gardens:

shown

Service and professional:

Inns of Court

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Commons:

shown

Symbolic elements:

Animal head above cartouche.

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Temple Bar.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

One boat rows up the river.

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