Surrey-Bermondsey: St Mary Magdalen-1836 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18173

Map Date:

1836

Repository reference:

Southwark Library

Historic county:

Surrey

Town name:

Bermondsey: St Mary Magdalen

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ342792

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3275

Comments on map:

Reference separate. Made by order of 'the Board of Governors and Directors' of the parish 'for the purpose of their valuing the property therein', 1833-6. The 48 detail sheets are delimited by streets. Scale based on 8a. 1r. 19p. equalling about 205 square inches. [No watermark in paper.]

Scale:

1:480*

Map-maker:

Geo. Porter, Architect & Surveyor, Fort Place, Bermondsey [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

85 x 56 [x 50].

Number of parts:

50

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, house numbers

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, bay windows, steps to buildings: Houses darker carmine, outbuildings much lighter carmine.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, river stairs, wharfs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

Southwark Library SC 912 St MM ('Oversize Reserve Stock

Industry:

food/drink, rope walk, textiles, warehousing: Extensive evidence of tanning.

Railways:

routes, named

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely, holdings/occupiers: [Some are occupiers: rationale not clear, except that that they appear to be for larger tenements].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Colourful title sheet, with coloured-ink sketches of (1) Church of St Mary Magdalen, (2) St James's Church, (3) London Leather Market.

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Houses in progress of erection.

Arms and heraldry:

uncertain: Two: one just red and blue, the other red and blue and adding a spotted lion [?] and a sort of cross-keys or banner motif: on title sheet.

Cemeteries:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

some inns, coffee houses, tea-gardens: [Coffee House, Jamaica Tea Gardens].

Other land-uses & land-cover:

'vacant ground'

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1871

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560