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John Rocque's 24-sheet map. In 1746, the French-born British surveyor and cartographer John Rocque produced two maps of London and the surrounding area. The better known of these has the full name A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark: it is a map of Georgian London to a scale of 26 inches to a mile (i.e. 1:2437), surveyed by John Rocque, engraved by John ...
The map of London and his other maps brought him an appointment as cartographer to Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1751. A fire in 1750 destroyed his premises and stock, but by 1753, he was employing ten draughtsmen, and The Small British Atlas: Being a New set of Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales appeared.
The commissioners originally suggested that "West Southwark" might be acceptable, with the neighbouring borough bearing the name "East Southwark". The vestry of St John Horsleydown proposed naming the boroughs as "Southwark St Saviour's" and "Southwark St Olave's", a suggestion supported by the London County Council. [5]
John Rocque's Map of London, Westminster, and Southwark, 1746, John Rocque FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps Creator John Rocque. Support as nominator – MER-C 11:08, 19 November 2023 (UTC) Support I do love a massively large map - Howard 🌽33 11:24, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
A map showing the wards of Southwark Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916. The constituency comprised the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark wards of Christchurch, St. Jude, St. Michael and St. Saviour. It covered almost all of Cathedrals ward and the northern part of the Chaucer ward in the modern day London Borough of Southwark.
Southwark St Saviour (/ ˈ s ÊŒ ð É™r k / ⓘ SUDH-É™rk) [1] was a civil parish in the metropolitan area of London, England, and part of the ancient Borough of Southwark. It was formed in 1541 from the union of the parishes of St Margaret and St Mary.
Since 2005 it has been based in a purpose-built building, situated adjacent to the JB Morrell Library on the University of York's Heslington West campus. This new building was made possible due to a grant of £4.4 million by the Heritage Lottery Fund [ 1 ] [ 3 ] and designed by Leach Rhodes Walker and Buro Happold .
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