Pimlico & Nine Elms 1869

Detailed map of Pimlico; London sheet 88. Introduction by Alan Godfrey. The maps covers an area stretching from Chelsea Royal Hospital eastward to Vauxhall Bridge, from Sloane Square southward to Battersea Park. The map therefore coverrs the eastern part of Chelsea, Pimlico, and a small part of Battersea. On the south side of the Thames a major feature is the Nine Elms area, including several wharves and the Nine Elms Goods Depot. North of the river major features include the railway approaches to Victoria (though the station is on the Westminster map), Sloane Square, Chelsea Barracks, Ranelagh Gardens, Lupus Street, Warwick Street, Chelsea Suspension Bridge, Vauxhall Bridge, Belgrave Road, Millbank Barracks. The 1869 map has Millbank Prison (in some detailand is so detailed that even mixed gauge railway track is shown - the GWR had access to Victoria.

Reduced from the original Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map to a scale of approximately 1:4,340 (or about 15" to the mile). Published by Alan Godfrey Maps, Leadgate, Consett