Cornwall-Torpoint-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

00904

Map Date:

1840

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/6/7

Historic county:

Cornwall

Town name:

Torpoint

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX439551

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 4555

Comments on map:

Anthony in the East tithe map. Part of the district was formerly in a detached part of Devon, transferred to Cornwall in October 1844. Record augmented 5:10:05 from reduced version f.t.p. of G. & F.L. Harris, The making of a Cornish town, Redruth: Institute of Cornish studies, 1976. Town is mapped in detail.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

Eastcott and Frise, Devonport [authors].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

220 x 170 [approx].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Turnpikes:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/6/7 [original]; BL X.709/30511, BOL G.A.Cornw.8o 479 [1976, reduced: in G. & F.L. Harris, The making of a Cornish town, Redruth: Institute of Cornish Studies, 1976].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Ferries:

landings

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1857-9

1:2500

1:10,560

1884

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-3

1:2500

1:10,560