John Nash's original Regent's Park plan. Marybone Park Farm. Marylebone 1815 map
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'Plan of an estate belonging to the Crown called Marybone Park Farm, upon a design for letting it out on building leases. By John Nash'
What is now Regent's Park was once owned by the Duke of Portland under a lease which was due to expire in 1811. Anticipating the park's redevelopment upon its reversion to the Crown, a prize of £1000 was offered in 1793 for the best scheme for laying out the area. By 1809, the only designs submitted were those of John White, surveyor to the 3rd Duke of Portland. Leverton and Chawner of HM Land Revenues, and Nash & Morgan of the Woods and Forests department were therefore asked to submit competing schemes. It was Nash's plan that was subsequent enacted from 1818, with modifications. This scarce map shows an early incarnation of Nash's successful plan, although it differs in a number of respects from the scheme that was eventually constructed. A number of Nash's famous terraces were eventually built, although this plan called for a number of other terraces and crescents that were never built. The boating lake is familiar, as is the inner circle, although Nash's plan called for two concentric circuses with terraced housing facing inwards and outwards, and the access roads differ. What is now Park Crescent was originally conceived as a circus, mirrored on the north side of the Marylebone Road. Nash anticipated that the area now occupied by the Zoo would be used as an army barracks. The eventual course of the Regent's canal around the top of the park is shown in blue (then under construction), although Nash's plan called for the canal to be diverted south towards the top of the boating lake.
Size 22 x 30 cm | 8.5 x 11.5 inches
Date Published: 1815
Type: A scarce early 19th century copperplate map showing proposed improvements to Regency London. Original hand colouring
Author: Nash, John
Publication: Proposed improvements to west London
Condition: Good |
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