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A mapp of the parish of St Martins in the Fields, taken from ye last survey, with additions (1685)

A mapp of the parish of St Martins in the Fields, taken from ye last survey, with additions (1685)

Cartographer: Blome, Richard

Medium: Engraving

Date: 1685

Shelfmark: Maps Crace Port. 13.2

Item number: 2

Length: 305

Width: 368

Scale: Millimetres

Genre: Plan

Map scale ratio: 1 Inch : 300 Feet (1 : 3600)

Map scale description: 3" : 900 feet

This plan of the parish of St Martins in the Fields shows the Banqueting House at Whitehall, the New Exchange on the Strand and Northumberland House. Near the top of the plate, the southern part of today's Leicester Square is indicated with the name of Leicester Fields. The equestrian statue of Charles I is depicted at Charing Cross. A pecked line marks the boundaries with the neighbouring parishes of St James and St Giles.

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