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Ely-1842

CBTM:
14409
Map Date:
1842
Repository reference:
Cambridgeshire RO, reference shelves
Town name:
Ely, March, Sutton, St Ives, Earith, Chatteris
Map type:
Land Drainage
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL541804
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
*
Map title:
'Plan of part of the Bedford Level and lands adjacent subject to the Eau Brink Tax'.
Comments on map:
Map by Lenny, 1833; lithographed 1842. Six sheets, designed to be mounted as one. Settlements are generalised, with buildings shown by square blocks, without cadastral information; exclusively rural elements not considered in this entry (but see Exeter parish map 14409).
Scale:
1:23,760
Map-maker:
J.G. Lenny, Bury St Edmunds [sv], R. Cartwright, Lithr, 1 Warwick Place, Bedford Row, London [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
113 x 87 [x 6].
Number of parts:
6
Building names:
fragmentary
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Cambridgeshire RO has a MS version at R59/31/40/25; another printed copy is at Huntingdon RO, MC 3/1, Acc. 1717; West Suffolk (Bury) RO, M.538; Norfolk RO, MC 508/1; DB 10/2; Wisbech Museum, E.III.20; London Metropolitan Archives Acc./1876/MP/06/15/.
Waterbodies:
shown
Commons:
shown
Ferries:
ferry
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Ordnance Survey's
1886
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
1885-6
1:2500
1:10,560
1900-1
1:2500
1:10,560
1884-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1886
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
1885-6
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
1885-6
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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