Cruchley, G.F.
Ordnance Map of the Country Round London. G.F. Cruchley, 81, Fleet Street, c.1870s. Hand-coloured.
Cruchley was a prolific marketer of London maps, frequently using the same map or a cut-down version with a laid-over title and new border to sell the same work several times. This is likely reduced or cut-down from one of his maps of the environs of London, and the map often breaks out of the ruled border with descriptions and features displayed in the margins. It is nonetheless a well-detailed map, with a particular interest in the development of the railways - this bears radii emanating from Waterloo. His usual method of production was to produce a base map, overlay it with the railways (to keep up to date) and then have a colourist finish it by hand. It is possible to roughly position this map via such stations - Nunhead Station only opening in 1871 and Haydens Lane being renamed Haydens Road in 1889. Given that Cruchley was likely active to 1876, it would seem plausible that this dates from the latter half of the 1870s.