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Middlesex-Westminster: St Martins in the Fields-1720

CBTM:
18337
Map Date:
[1720]
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] Library
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
Westminster: St Martins in the Fields
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ301807
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'A mapp of the parish of St Martins in the Fields, taken from ye last survey, with 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. 645.
Scale:
1:3600
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
29.3 x 35.7
Number of parts:
2
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Larger buildings, e.g. Banqueting Hall, (unnamed) Piazza, Northumberland House, shown pictorially.
Water transport infrastructure:
river stairs: [River stairs with moored boats].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
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:] BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.II, Part II , Westminster Archives Box 4, no.11.
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Commons:
shown
Monuments:
columns, (pictorial): [In Covent Garden and Charing Cross: looks like equestrian statue].
Symbolic elements:
Grotesque head (? very amateurish lion) above cartouche.
Miscellaneous service buildings:
[Great Mews, Green Mews].
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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