Chapter 23: Other archival documents & manuscripts

23.1 Manuscript texts | 23.2 Manuscript maps earlier than 1860

Many individual documents relating to Westminster have been acquired for the archive collection. These are two of the more interesting items:

Buckingham Palace: Description of the design for a new palace, 1726 Acc 496

Westminster Bridge: Scheme for the foundations, c1739 Acc 1216

23.1 Manuscript texts

The archive collection includes a small number of manuscript texts and notes for published and unpublished works. Collections of notes for historical works and the texts of autobiographical works are included with personal and estate records in Section 22. The following is an example of a text for a historical work:

Henry Thomas Buckle, historian (1821-1862): Manuscript of The History of Civilisation in England, published in 1857 and 1861 M Acc 603

23.2 Manuscript maps earlier than 1860

These are maps which were not acquired as part of a larger archive. Parish maps which are kept with the parish records are included in Section 10.1 and estate maps kept with the estate records are included in Section 22. The local studies collection includes many copies of manuscript maps, the originals of which are held elsewhere (see Section 7).

Craven Estate: Plan of Dame Elizabeth Craven's estate near Charing Cross by Samuel Parsons, 1621 Acc 1815

Craven Estate: Book of plans of land in St James Piccadilly, St martin-in-the-Fields, St Mary-le-Strand and Paddington, 1829 Acc 1307

Grand Junction Canal Company: Map of the estate at Paddington south of the canal basin, scale c80 inches: 1 mile, c1845

Manor of Westbourne Green: Map of land belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, scale c13 inches: 1 mile, 1810-1811

Paddington estate of the Bishop of London: Map of the estate in seven sections by G H Eliot, scale c35 inches: 1 mile, c1820-1825

Paddington and Notting Hill: Map showing the Grand Junction Canal and Great Western Railway terminus, scale c24 inches: 1 mile, c8142

St Margaret Westminster: Photocopy of tithe apportionment with map of land near Kensington, 1854-1856 Acc 277 (originals at Tithe Redemption Office)

St Marylebone: Map of the bounds of the parish with buildings by Joseph Phillips and James Haywood, scale c21 inches: 1 mile, 1768

St Marylebone: Map of the built area south of Marylebone Road by John Jones, scale c40 inches: 1 mile, 1784

St Marylebone: Map of the estates on the north side of Marylebone Road by John Jones, scale 5.1 inches: 1 mile, 1799