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Map Title & Scale Map Title, Scale, & Rickmansworth, Herts Watford, Herts, & Pinner Wood South Mims & Mill Hill Potters Bar & Colney Hatch Waltham Cross, Herts, & Lower Edmonton Waltham Abbey & Epping Forest, Essex
Slough & Colnbrook, Bucks Harefield Park & Harlington Pinner & Norwood Edgware & Hammersmith Finchley & Pimlico Tottenham & Isle Of Dogs Woodford, Essex, & Woolwich, Kent
Windsor, Berks, & Chertsey, Surrey Longford & Shepperton Heston & Hampton Court Chiswick & Explanation Of Signs Chelsea & Explanation Of Signs Deptford, Kent, & Some London Statistics Greenwich, Kent, & Some London Statistics


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The Map

Full Title:
Groom's New Map Of Middlesex c1883
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Publisher:
Ordnance Map Department. Forster Groom & Co., Geographers & Map Specialists. 15 Charing Cross, London , S.W. Near Whitehall.
Printer:
Letts, Son & Co. Limited, London.
Date:
c1883
Size:
44cm x 35.5cm (17¼" x 14")
Scale:
Approx ½" : 1 statute mile
Extent:
South Mims - Woolwich - Walton On Thames - Windsor.
Description:

Folding paper map, linen backed, with hard cover. Printed colour. Title, Scale and Middlesex Statistics top left. Explanation Of Signs bottom centre. Some London Statistics bottom right. Publisher's label pasted on at bottom center. Stained and foxed, but generally in good condition. Divided into squares lettered in upper and lower case in border for reference. The reference index is not included with this map.


The map of Middlesex records market towns and market days, towns where Quarter Sessions are held, towns where County Courts are held, Post Towns, and statistical information relating to London and Middlesex. The London statistics include:

  • The area
  • The population in 1801 and 1881
  • The number of daily births and deaths
  • The average daily increase of population
  • The number of persons killed or wounded by cabs yearly
  • The number of miles of streets, and daily consumption of gas in cubic feet
  • Total value of house property
  • Number of Police
  • The number of cabs, omnibuses, and passengers carried yearly
  • The annual consumption of oxen, sheep, beer, wine and spirits
  • Exports and imports for 1882
  • Number of vessels entering the Port of London annually
  • Number of stray dogs found in one year
  • Average number of foot passengers and vehicles passing into the City daily
  • Number of Churches, Public-houses, and Coffee-houses
You can view the signs and statistics for Middlesex and London below:

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Middlesex Statistics

 
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Some London Statistics

 
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View Explanation Of Signs

Explanation Of Signs

 


The publisher's label pasted at the bottom centre of the map reads "Forster Groom & Co., Geographical Depot, 15 Charing Cross, London." An advertisement for Forster & Groom's other map publications is pasted to the back of the map and the front board cover, stating that they produce "Publications of the late James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen." Forster and Groom advertise:
  • A Selection of English and Foriegn Maps of the best publishers of all parts of the World kept in stock.
  • Travelling and Library Maps.
  • Cycling Maps.
  • Maps of London, and Large Towns.
  • Ordnance Maps on All Scales.
  • Admiralty Charts.
  • County Maps & Walking Routes.
  • Map Mounting and General Map Work.
  • Atlases And Globes.
  • Parliamentary Plan Work.
  • Cartoons for Lectures and Committees.
  • Stationers And Printers.
  • Lithographic Printers.
  • Engravers.
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Forster & Groom's Advertisement


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