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Middlesex-Westminster: St James-1720

CBTM:
18335
Map Date:
[1720]
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.XXI.3; TNA [PRO] Library
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
Westminster: St James
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ295804
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'The parish of St James's Westminster, taken from the last survey, with corrections.'
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 I (1754), f.p. 654. Scale is graduated in yards, but that is evidently in error for feet: otherwise scale would be 1:10,080. 'Refferences to the new Buildings', bottom left.
Scale:
1:3600
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
29.8 x 36.1
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Larger houses and palace shown pictorially.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
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:] BLML K.Top.21.3 [original]; BL 1302.h.1 [1847: c.1:18,103, in J.H. Jesse, Literary & historical memorials of London, 1847) [transcript]; Westminster Archives D.13(6) [undated photolitho reissue].
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Borders:
decorative
Cemeteries:
shown
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
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