Middlesex-Westminster: St Paul Covent Garden-1771 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21300

Map Date:

? 1771

Repository reference:

London Metropolitan Archives E/BER/CG/E/5/1/2b

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Westminster: St Paul Covent Garden

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ304809

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Comments on map:

According to London Metropolitan Archives list this is of 1771 by T. Richardson, but neither these nor a scale are to be found on the map, which is something of a tour de force of detailed planimetry.

Scale:

1:480*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

160x 96

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Colouring:

estate

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: With steps to church.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

London Metropolitan Archives E/BER/CG/E/5/1/2b [1771], E/BER/CG/E/5/1/2a [?1974+ copy].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Landowners and occupiers:

misc: [Various names and dates, apparently in the seventeenth century, which could be to do with leasing].

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Stone Posts.

Cemeteries:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown, coffee houses: [One coffee house].

Other land-uses & land-cover:

'vacant ground'

Stated measuerments:

- Frontage and boundary lengths, in feet: look comprehensive (and useful for supplying scale).

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