File:Knightsbridge showing the Halfway House 009MAP0000183P2U0005A000(SVC2).jpg

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Description	English: Knightsbridge showing the Halfway House. One of the lithographs from 15 drawings which were reprinted as 30 lithographic plates, numbered from 1 to 15a with each measuring 610 x 686 mm (24 inches to 27 inches). Laid end-to-end the drawings would be 60 feet long, representing a panorama of 2.6 miles from the Piccadilly Turnpike at Hyde Park Corner down to Scotch Corner and all the way along Knightsbridge and Kensington High Street to Counter's Bridge, where the borough of Kensington and Chelsea ends and Hammersmith begins. Shelfmark: Maps.183.p.2 Item number: 5-A Length: 593 Width: 657 Scale: Millimetres Genre: Plan Map scale ratio: 1 : 20 Feet (1 : 240) Map scale description: 1 : 20 Feet The Halfway House is depicted in plan and elevation on the north side of the road on the site of today's Prince of Wales Gate. This ancient inn, with its ramshackle stables and pigsties, had long been popular with highwaymen in the area.
Date	1811
Source	http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/kensturn/k/largeimage77697.html
Author	Joseph Salway

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