Map of London from 1818.“A Topographical Map of the Country Twenty Miles round London, p
Map of London from 1818. “A Topographical Map of the Country Twenty Miles round London, planned from a scale of two miles to an inch..”, William Faden Jnr. (1818). Scarce map of the environs of London to a distance of twenty miles from Charing Cross, the map marking the distances along the road by the mile stones, at a scale of half-an-inch to one statute mile. The map extends from Welwyn, Stapleford and Chelsing, south to Dorking and Edenbridge, and from Windsor in the west east to East Tilbury. William Faden was one of the greatest English mapmakers and publishers of his day, this recognised by his appointment as Geographer to the King. From his shop at Charing Cross, he retailed all manner of maps, large and small, including an extensive range of maps relating to London and the Home Counties. The map is interesting as marking the ‘Garret La Railway’, extending from Wandsworth towards Merstham, properly the Surrey Iron Railway, the first commercial railway in the United Kingdom, opened in 1803, a fixed-rail line, with the carriages drawn by horses. This printing of the map, with the date in the imprint advanced to January 1st 1818, is the first to show Waterloo Bridge (although it is not named). Other additions include the ‘Croydon Canal’, which links Croydon and Deptford, where it joins the ’Gr. Surry Canal’, which extends from near Camberwell to the docks at Rotherhithe. -- source link
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