Middlesex-Whitechapel: St Mary-1720 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19403

Map Date:

[1720]

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Whitechapel: St Mary, Wapping St John

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ342805

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

*

Map title:

'St. Mary Whitechapel and St John, Wapping, parish taken from ye last survey with corrections and additions;'. [sic]

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. 36.

Scale:

1:5760

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

28.7 x 36.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

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].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Symbolic elements:

Face (? goat's head): at top of cartouche.

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1872

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1894

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560