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Middlesex-Westminster: St Paul Covent Garden-1795

CBTM:
19613
Map Date:
? 1795
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 3495 (132)
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
Westminster: St Paul Covent Garden, St George Bloomsbury
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ304809
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'Part of the map of London comprizing the estates of His Grace the Duke of Bedford in the parishes of St. Paul Covent Garden, St. Martin in the Fields, St. Giles in the Fields, St. George Bloomsbury, St. George the Martyr and St. Pancras...'
Comments on map:
Possibly a redrawing from the Horwood map, but cf the 1771 map [Exeter 21300]. 'Survey in 1795', bottomn leftish.
Scale:
1:2400
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
103.5 x 58.2
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours, boundaries
Colouring:
Buildings, other: Buildings in yellow and 'land' (presumably Bedford estates) in green on original.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly: [Bedford House].
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover: [Trees in squares].
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 3495(132), BOL (E)C17:70 London (426), Camden 85.245 1795 [London Topographical Society publication 66, 1933, from original in Duke of Bedford's Archives].
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, museums: [Internal layouts indicated in Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres].
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete: In Bedford estates area only; rest is blocks.
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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