Maitland’s Plan of Baynard’s Castle & Faringdon Wards
SKU: 8815Title:
Maitland’s Plan of Baynard’s Castle & Faringdon Wards
Date of publication:
c.1756
Printed Measurement:
36.5 x 47 cm
Colour:
black and white
Mapmaker(s):
Engraver(s):
Benjamin Cole
Baynard’s Castle Ward [and] Faringdon Ward with their divisions into Parishes according to a new survey
Copper engraving, 36.5 x 47 cm, engraved by Benjamin Cole, black and white, slight offsetting, blank verso; ward plan of Baynard’s Castle and Faringdon published in the greatly expanded second edition of Maitland’s History of London.
Significant buildings, such as St Paul’s, are represented pictorially on the map; the River Fleet is labelled both ‘The New Canall’ and ‘Fleet Ditch’; with the arms of contemporary Aldermen Sir Robert Ladbroke and William Bridgen. Hyde, Ward Maps, 46.