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An important large-scale map of Middlesex

GREENWOOD, Christopher.

Map of the County of Middlesex, from an Actual Survey made in the Years 1818 & 1819 by C. Greenwood. To the Nobility, Clergy & Gentry of Middlesex, This Map of the County Is most respectfully Dedicated by The Proprietors.
London: G. Pringle and C. Greenwood, 1819. Dissected and laid on linen in four sections, each 630 x 665mm, total 1260 x 1330mm,

Paper slightly age-toned, a small area of surface loss on the south-west sheet. and some old ink annotations around Sunbury.

A superbly detailed map of Middlesex, on a scale of 2" to a statute mile, decorated with a dedication vignette view of London, with the lake of St James's Park, St Paul's Cathedral, Whitehall and Westminster Abbey. Among the features marked are churches, chapels, water mills & windmills, canals, turnpike roads, woods and plantations. Hills are still marked with hachuring rather than contours.
Of interest is the mapping of the areas around London in the years before conurbation, including areas just outside the scope of the Greenwoods' 6-sheet map of London of 1827.
The ink manuscript, dated 1832 in pencil, relates to property ownership around Sunbury.
Brothers John and Christopher Greenwood surveyed 36 English and Welsh counties (all but six) between 1817 and 1834, when they published a large folio county atlas based on their surveys.


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Stock Id :22400

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An important large-scale map of Middlesex

GREENWOOD, Christopher.

Map of the County of Middlesex, from an Actual Survey made in the Years 1818 & 1819 by C. Greenwood. To the Nobility, Clergy & Gentry of Middlesex, This Map of the County Is most respectfully Dedicated by The Proprietors.
London: G. Pringle and C. Greenwood, 1819. Dissected and laid on linen in four sections, each 630 x 665mm, total 1260 x 1330mm,

Paper slightly age-toned, a small area of surface loss on the south-west sheet. and some old ink annotations around Sunbury.

A superbly detailed map of Middlesex, on a scale of 2" to a statute mile, decorated with a dedication vignette view of London, with the lake of St James's Park, St Paul's Cathedral, Whitehall and Westminster Abbey. Among the features marked are churches, chapels, water mills & windmills, canals, turnpike roads, woods and plantations. Hills are still marked with hachuring rather than contours.
Of interest is the mapping of the areas around London in the years before conurbation, including areas just outside the scope of the Greenwoods' 6-sheet map of London of 1827.
The ink manuscript, dated 1832 in pencil, relates to property ownership around Sunbury.
Brothers John and Christopher Greenwood surveyed 36 English and Welsh counties (all but six) between 1817 and 1834, when they published a large folio county atlas based on their surveys.


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