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The wards of Farington [sic] within and Baynards Castle with its divisions into parishes, taken from the last survey, with corrections (1720)

The wards of Farington [sic] within and Baynards Castle with its divisions into parishes, taken from the last survey, with corrections (1720)

Cartographer: Blome, Richard

Medium: Engraving

Date: 1720

Shelfmark: Maps Crace Port. 8.23

Item number: 23

Length: 305

Width: 368

Scale: Millimetres

Genre: Plan

Map scale description: 2'' : 400 Feet

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This plan was published in Strype's first annotated edition of Stow's 'Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster'. The plan's title features in cartouche at top left, with compass star and scale bar near bottom left. The keys to streets, yards, halls, courts and private properties appear in tables down both sides of the plate. 

St Paul's Cathedral and other prominent buildings are shown pictorially. Farringdon Ward was divided into Farringdon Within and Farringdon Without in 1394 because "the governance thereof is too laborious and grievous for one person to occupy and duly govern the same".

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