An Alphabetical List Of The Streets, Lanes, Passages, Public Buildings And Bankers In The Metropolis, With Reference To Their Situation A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Public Buildings Charitable Institutions Hospitals Workhouses, Almshouses Company's Halls Courts Of Justice Inns Of Court Places Of Amusement Theatres Places Of Worship Foreign Chapels Dissenters' Chapels Police Offices Prisons Religious &c Institutions Schools Subscription Houses Insurance Companies London Bankers Hackney Coach Fares Watermen Rates

Pigot & Co.'s Metropolitan Guide c1820 Preface Contents Index Ancient History Of London Civitas Londinum Map c1560 Improvement Of London Present State Of London Public Buildings Cathedrals Churches Schools Public Hospitals Bridges Docks British Museum Theatres Public Amusements Markets Recent Improvements London Street List

The Map

Book Title:	Pigot & Co.'s Metropolitan Guide & Book Of Reference To Every Street, Court, Lane, Passage, Alley And Public Building, In The Cities Of London & Westminster, The Borough Of Southwark, And Their Respective Suburbs. Compiled & Arranged from Actual Survey & accompanied with a New Plan of London divided into Seventy districts, which are referred to by figures in the Street & List. - The whole made so easy of Comprehension as to be essentially valuable to Strangers, & of the greatest use to the resident Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, Tradesmen, &c.
Map Title:	Pigot & Co.'s Miniature Plan Of London & Vicinity, With The Geographical Bearings From The Dome Of St. Pauls. Formed into 70 Divisions by means of Circular &c. lines each Circle being 6 Furlongs or ¾ of a Mile from the next when measured in a direct line.
Publisher:	J. Pigot & Co. 24 Basing Lane, London, & 16 Fountain St., Manchester
Date:	c1820
Size:	27cm x 41.3cm (10¾" x 16¼")
Scale:	c17/8" : 1 statute mile
Extent:	Islington - East India Docks - Camberwell - Kensington Gardens
Description:	Folding map, included with Pigot & Co.'s Metropolitan Guide. Title at top right. Scale near bottom centre. 70 divisions of map numbered for reference to the street index. Waterloo and Southwark Bridges and Stamford Street shown, but not York Road, Lambeth. Carlton House shown.

Pigot & Co.'s Miniature Plan Of London & Vicinity is recorded in Howgego as being c1820 (No. 284), although Howgego records Pigot & Co.'s Metropolitan Guide & Book Of Reference as c1823 (No. 298) with a different fold-out map included in the book.

The copy of Pigot & Co.'s Miniature Plan Of London & Vicinity displayed here is is sadly in very poor condition, being split and separated along all folds.

The London Metropolitan Guide street index is comprehensive, but requires the other more detailed maps displayed on this site to precisely locate individual streets. The 70 divisions on the map are formed by ¾ of a mile circular lines radiating from the dome of St. Paul's. These divisions merely indicate the sector of London in which the streets are located. The Explanation given on the map best explains their use:

"To find any place wanted expiditiously look in the Street List, & (for Example) preceeding Fleet St. Temple bar, will be found a figure of Seven, which corresponds with the Number of division on the Map in which Fleet St. will be found: the same rule must be observed with any other place of public building wanted in the Metropolis."

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