Bethnal Green antique map Ordnance Survey 1885
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Original antique map of the New Borough of Bethnal Green, showing its division into two parliamentary divisions (North East and South West) each of which was to elect a member of parliament. Published in the Report of the Boundary Commissioners for England and Wales 1885. This zincographed Ordnance Survey map was produced by Colonel R. Owen Jones, Royal Engineers and printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London. The map is supplied with the Report which states that the “The population in 1881 was 126,961 an increase since 1871 of 6,859. The number of inhabited houses in 1881 was 16,606.” A nice clean map. paper size approx. 14 x 10.5 inches.