Christopher and John Greenwood's's 8 inches to the mile 6 sheet map was
first published in 1827. It is item No. 309 as catalogued by
James Howgego in
Printed Maps of London
c1553-1850.
The map consists of six sheets numbered 1 to 3, top row, and 4 to 6 bottom row. The lower half of the map contains illustrations of
St. Paul's and
Westminster Abbey together with panels containing a
List of Parishes and a
Key. The
Title is top right beyond the river Lea.
The images are from the 1830 (second) edition as listed by
Howgego, except that .
The survey was carried out by Christopher and John Greenwood between 1824 and 1826. The second edition includes Improvements to 1830. The first edition was engraved by James and Josiah Neele, 352 Strand and published August 21, 1827 by Greenwood, Pringle & Co. 13 Regent Street Pall Mall, the second edition contains an attribution for engraving only to Josiah Neele, 352 Strand and was published October 1830 by Greenwood & Co. Regent Street, Pall Mall.
The example used for these images appears a hybrid. Plate 3 with the title conforms to the second edition. Plate 6 contains the reference to the proposed
Collier Docks which Howgego only refers to in the context of the first edition. Sheet 4 contains the limit of the
Twopenny Post delivery, which Howgego refers to in the context of the third edition.
Plate 2 has a publication attribution, outside the border, consistent with the first edition.
Plate 1 and
Plate 2 have an attribution, outside the border, to J & J Neele for engraving.
Plate 4 and
Plate 6 have atribution only to Josiah. Plate numbers outside the border are Arabic numerals, eg
Plate 2 except
Plate 3 which is Roman.
TO ACCESS THE MAP
Note: The file sizes required for high quality screen presentation of maps and detailed
prospects and panoramas are large and may take over a minute to download.
For the purpose of indexing and screen display each sheet (of 6) is divided into 81 segments, 9 horizontally and 9 vertically. There are therefore 18 rows of 27 segments each for the whole map. However 71 of the 486 segments are covered by the illustrations and title panels noted below.The current segmentation is to keep the size of the files for the segments containing a lot of detail to less than 500k.
The map may be accessed in three ways:
Overview Map and Grid
There is an
overview of the complete map. By clicking on a point on this overview map you will access an image of the segment (of 415 segments) containing that location. The images will take time to arrive as they are large in order for detail and text to be legible on screen. You can move the image either using the scroll bars, or click on the image and then use the Page Up/Down and Home keys or the Up/Down and Left/Right Arrows.
When you have a segment of the map on display you can move to the next adjacent segment in all four directions (assuming there is a further segment in that direction) by clicking on the North, South, East and West links to the top left of the display of the map segment. The pages of the map do not overlap and a segment at the edge of a page will not overlap with the adjacent segment on the next page, however within a page there is some overlap between the segments.
Index of Names
There is an index of 5000 names. Clicking on a name in the index will access the segment of the map containing that location. You can then move to adjacent segments as above. This index includes all the major streets and comprises those names on the map written in capitals and upper and lower case, but not in italics, with the original spellings as they appear on the map. The index is displayed in the lefthand column. It will take a minute to arrive as it contains nearly 5000 entries. You can scroll down the index with the scroll bar, or click on the index and then use the Page Up/Down and Home keys or the Up/Down Arrows.
Unsegmented Maps
In addition, because the segments are relatively small in geographic area the following can be accessed as complete maps, albeit at half the scale of the individual segments.
East India Dock (150k file)
Hyde Park and Kensington Palace (850k file)
London Dock (150k file)
St Katherines Dock (60k file)
Regents Park (550k file)
St James's Park and King's Palace (400k file)
Tower of London and The Mint (50k file)
West India Dock (300k file)
SOURCE OF IMAGES AND COPYRIGHT
The images were
photographed digitally from an original map in the Motco collection.
The copyright of the (digital) images is owned by Motco. They
may only be copied for personal use, which specifically excludes use on a website.
If you require access to the images for commercial or other use, in hard copy or digital form,
please contact
Motco.
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