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Summary

Title
Insurance Plan of City of London Vol. I: sheet 17
Description
English: This detailed 1886 plan of London is one of a series of twenty-five 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).
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Catalogue: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/firemaps/england/london/itov/mapsu145ubu22u1uf017r.html
Viewer: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/firemaps/england/london/itov/zoomify150110.html
Creator
Chas E Goad Limited
 Geotemporal data
Date depicted
Map location London and South East
Scale Inches [1:480]. 40 ft = 1 inch. and [1:2400]. 200 ft = 1 inch.
Georeferencing Georeference the map in Wikimaps Warper If inappropriate please set warp_status = skip to hide.
 Bibliographic data
Publisher
Chas E Goad Limited
 Archival data
The British Library
Accession number
Maps 145.b.22.(.1)
Medium Image
Notes Content-id: 150110


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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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