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

CBTM:

18334

Map Date:

[1720]

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Westminster: St Margaret

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ292802

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'A mapp of the parish of St Margarets 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 II (1755), f.p. 640. Detail is continuous to neat line on north and west sides: parish boundary is not indicated.

Scale:

1:3600

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

29.6 x 35.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Palaces pictorial: full extent indicated in black.

Water transport infrastructure:

river stairs: [River stairs with moored boats].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Most churches pictorial, including 'St Peters Cathedral', but 'St Johns' [Smith Square] is in plan.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

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].

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground: In south part of St James Park are three swans, and in the north part a running stag, also 'The Decoy', 'The Place for the Fowle'.

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Symbolic elements:

What could be a leopard's head surmounts cartouche.

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