Maps of Luton

Maps of Luton

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Insurance Plan of Luton: sheet 4-3

1 : 480 This detailed 1895 plan of Luton is one of a series of seven sheets in an atlas originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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Insurance Plan of Luton: Key Plan

1 : 4800 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1895 series of fire insurance maps of Luton, that were originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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Bedfordshire XXXIII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Bedfordshire XXXIII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Bedfordshire XXXIII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Bedfordshire XXXIII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Bedfordshire XXXIII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Bedfordshire XXXIII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Bedfordshire XXXIII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Hertfordshire XIX - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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TL02 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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The county of Bedford, 8

1 Blatt : 53 x 72 cm s.n.
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A topographical map of Hartford-Shire, 5

1 Blatt : 53 x 72 cm A. Dury
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A topographical map of Hartford-Shire, 2

1 Blatt : 53 x 72 cm A. Dury
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Leighton Buzzard (Hills) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Leighton Buzzard (Outline) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Hatfield

1 : 31680 This map is not drawn with north at the top. Potters Bar appears at the bottom left, almost on a level with Hertford at the bottom right. The remains of the Old Royal Palace of Hatfield are shown near the centre of the map. This was the home of Elizabeth I (1533-1603) prior to her accession to the throne. Also featured is Hatfield, the house built in 1611 by the first Earl of Salisbury, Robert Cecil (1563-1612). A poorhouse is marked just outside the town. Hyett, William
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Luton

The boundaries of the counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Hertfordshire are marked on this plan by pecked red lines. Red dots within circles indicate trigonometrical points from which the surveyor took angular measurements to plot topographical features of the landscape. Hyett, William
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London passenger transport map

Ordnance Survey
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Hertford& St Albans

Ordnance Survey
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Woburn

1 : 31680 This county boundary of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire is depicted as a black dotted line at bottom left. Down the right of the sheet, many triangulation points are marked in red ink. Toll roads are highlighted in yellow, with turnpikes indicated along their routes. A section of the Watling Street, between Dunstable and Little Brickhill, is indicated near the bottom of the sheet. This Roman road ran from London to Wroxeter in Wales, via St. Albans. Symbols distinguish different types land use, while shading is used to indicate relief. Hyett, William
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The Chilterns

1 : 63360 Ordnance Survey Office
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Bedfordiensis comitatvs; anglis Bedford Shire

2 Karten auf einem Blatt : Kupferdruck ; Bildgrösse 42 x 53 cm Blaeu Joan Blaeu
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Bedford and Luton - OS One-Inch Map

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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The county of Bedford

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 68 x 45 cm Jefferys s.n.
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An accurate map of the county of Bedford

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 68 x 50 cm Bowen; Hinton sold by I Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church Yard
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A topographical map of Hartford-Shire

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 52 x 70 cm Dury; Andrews Andrew Dury
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A new improved map of Hartford Shire

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 51 x 64 cm Kitchin; Hinton; Walker sold by I. Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church yard
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HARTFORDIAE COMITATUS f.34

This is a map of Herefordshire by Christopher Saxton which dates from 1577. It forms part of an atlas that belonged to William Cecil Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I’s Secretary of State. Burghley used this atlas to illustrate domestic matters. This map is actually a proof copy of one which forms part of Christopher Saxton’s Atlas of England and Wales. This atlas was first published as a whole in 1579. It consists of 35 coloured maps depicting the counties of England and Wales. The atlas is of great significance to British cartography as it set a standard of cartographic representation in Britain and the maps remained the basis for English county mapping, with few exceptions, until after 1750. During the reign of Elizabeth I, map use became more common, with many government matters referring to increasingly accurate maps with consistent scales and symbols, made possible by advances in surveying techniques. Illustrating the increasing use of maps in government matters, Lord Burghley, who had been determined to have England and Wales mapped in detail from the 1550s, selected the cartographer Christopher Saxton to produce a detailed and consistent survey of the country. The financier of the project was Thomas Seckford Master of Requests at the Court of Elizabeth I, whose arms appear, along with the royal crest, on each map. Lord Burghley has added several place names to the map. This map was engraved by Nicholaus Reynoldus one of a team of seven English and Flemish engravers employed to produced the copper plates for the atlas. Saxton, Christopher Reynoldus, Nicholaus
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