Middlesex-Whitechapel: Wapping-1720 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19404

Map Date:

[1720]

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Whitechapel: Wapping, St John; Shadwell, St Paul

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ342805

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

*

Map title:

'The parish of St John Wapping'; 'The parish of St Paul Shadwell'.

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. 37.

Scale:

1:3780

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

36.5 x 28.5

Number of parts:

2

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, river stairs: New Crane; docks include Execution Dock; boats at river stairs.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

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].

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