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A new pocket plan of London, Westminster and Southwark with all the adjacent buildings. Also a correct lift of upwards of 300 hackney coach fares. 1797

A new pocket plan of London, Westminster and Southwark with all the adjacent buildings. Also a correct lift of upwards of 300 hackney coach fares. 1797

Publisher: Darton, William and Harvey, Josiah

Medium: Engraving

Date: 1797

Shelfmark: Maps Crace Port. 5.181

Item number: 181

Length: 381

Width: 540

Scale: Millimetres

Genre: Map

Map scale description: 2" : half-a-mile

Pocket plans were made popular by publisher Thomas Bowles in the 1730s. This later map is coloured to highlight the old London Wall and the parks and open spaces. This map includes a list of Hackney Coach Fares. The development of turnpike roads from the 1750s onwards led to a steady increase of wheeled vehicles such as the Hackney Coach, which eventually made watermen redundant.

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