Middlesex-Westminster: St Pauls Covent Garden-1720
CBTM:
18332
Map Date:
[1720]
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] Library
Historic county:
Middlesex
Town name:
Westminster: St Pauls Covent Garden
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ304809
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'A mapp of the parish of St Pauls Covent Garden taken from the last survey'.
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. 661.
Scale:
1:2520
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
17.9 x 31.2
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some buildings, notably the (unnamed) piazza and cross in centre of Covent Garden, are pictorial.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
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:] Westminster Archives Box 27 no.3a (also 3b, 6, 7b, 8a); Westminster Archives dup file L.13(1755).
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Crosses:
cross, (pictorial)
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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