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Area of coal duties maps

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• Date: [1861-1885]
• Full title: Area of coal duties. This is the most common title, usually appearing on the spine of the slip case. Some bear other titles or descriptions.
• Size: 920 x 960mm cut into 4 sheets 460 x 480mm, each dissected into 15 segments (153 x 96mm) with a linen backing and folded in a slip case 165 x 110 x 30mm. (Approximate measurements: copies vary)
• Scale: 1:63360, 1":1 mile
• Reference: Hyde 101
• Copies: see below

These maps show the 1861 London District boundary and the positions of posts. Each is in four sheets and consists of portions of 1":1 mile Ordnance Survey maps to which the boundary, positions of posts and railways have been added by hand. In most cases the sheets used are parts of first series sheets 1, 6, 7 and 8. Copy L was made from new series sheets 256 and 270, parts of sheets 257, 269, 271, 285, 286, and 287 together with parts of first series sheets 1 and 7. For the complexities of these maps see Harley & Phillips The Historian's guide to Ordnance Survey maps.

At least a dozen copies of this map have survivied. In the minutes of the Coal and Corn and Finance Committee (Minutes 25, 17th September 1861, 107) there is a reference to copies being made for the members of committee, who numbered about 40 people. Given the map was revised many times over its life, at one time there could have been very many more copies.

Known copies are:

The single-letter codes are ones that I have assigned to identify the different copies of the map. References are shelfmarks in repositories or, in the case of the copies formerly in collection of J Tabor, the numbers in Boyle's London: a cartographic history 1746-1950. The number of markers is my reckoning of the number shown.

The dates are not marked on the maps but are ones which, in the case of copies I have been able to examine, I have deduced from the extent of railways shown, these having been added by hand to the original maps. The assumption that the lines shown are lines opened (rather those projected or under construction) seems justified by the facts that (a) no lines which were never opened are shown, and (b) it does not lead to any chronological inconsistencies. I have taken opening dates as given in Borley's Chronology of London railways for lines in London, in Clark's A Southern Region record for other former Southern Region lines, and from the relevant volume of A regional history of the railways of Great Britain (The eastern counties, The east midlands, and Greater London) otherwise.

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