Surrey-Lambeth-1841 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18212

Map Date:

1841

Repository reference:

British Library Map Library Crace 16.65

Historic county:

Surrey

Town name:

Lambeth

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ310780

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3275

Map title:

'Plan of the Parish of St Mary Lambeth, reduced from the survey made and delivered in pursuance of the directions of Her Majesty's Poor Law Commissioners August 1st 1838 approved by them and also by the Tithe Commissioners for the purposes of the Parochial Assessment Act completed up to 1841'.

Comments on map:

No field numbers, and no cadaster: attribution as rating map derives from title.

Scale:

1:7128

Map-maker:

Charles Lee, Architect & Surveyor, 20 Golden Square, John Davis Paine, Architect & Surveyor, 57 Lincolns Inn Fields [sv], Jas Wyld, Geographer to the Queen, and to H.R.H. Prince Albert, Charing Cross East [eng, pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

165 x 55

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, important buildings only

Buildings:

shown: Good building shapes.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

docks

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, water works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown, landmark tree: [Vicar's Oak: at SE corner of parish].

Public/administrative boundaries:

district/division: [Named in shaded upright block].

Known copies of map:

BL Crace 16.65, CUL Maps.c.73.84.7Z, Lambeth-Minet 12/1841/MF (AP 157), 12/1841/Roll 58 [original & photo].

Industry:

bricks/tiles

Railways:

passenger stations

Gardens:

shown, nurseries: In rural part only.

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground: [Vauxhall Gardens, The Oval].

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right: St Mary's Church and Cardinal Moreton's Gateway.

Commons:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Dedicee of map:

Churchwardens, rector, guardians and ratepayers.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

landmark inns: ['Telegraph' on Brixton Hill is probably a pub.]

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1870-1

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560