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George Washington Bacon: Bacon's NewMap of the Environs of London.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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George Washington Bacon  (1830–1922)  wikidata:Q18122918
 
Description cartographer
Date of birth/death 1830 Edit this at Wikidata 1922 Edit this at Wikidata
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London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q18122918
Title
Bacon's NewMap of the Environs of London.
Description
English: A rare c. 1895 folding pocket map of London and its environs by G. W. Bacon. Covers the London area from Rickmansworth in the northwest to Keveldon Hatch in the northeast. Extends south to Whitewater Common and Ightham Common. Offers extraordinary detail, often at the level of individual buildings, throughout noting manors, mills, roads, towns, forests, parks, castles, railways, cemeteries and bridges. Published by G. W. Bacon in pocket format c. 1895. Dissected into 40 sections and mounted on linen. Folds into original red gilt stamped linen binder.
Date circa 1895
date QS:P571,+1895-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Dimensions height: 28.5 in (72.3 cm); width: 39 in (99 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,28.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,39U218593
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Geographicus link: London-bacon-1895
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