Plymouth-1849
CBTM:
18732
Map Date:
[1849]
Repository reference:
West Country Studies Library DEV.1846.ROU
Town name:
Torpoint, Devonport, Stonehouse, Plymouth
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SX480540
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 4555
Comments on map:
In The route book of Devon: a guide for the stanger and tourist, Exeter: Henry Besley, n.d. [includes railways on the Plymouth map, but not in pp 268-71]. It may be significant that no stations are shown on the railways, and that they do not appear to be quite as built. Unlike the Exeter map in this volume [Exeter 18731], scale seems to be correct.
Scale:
1:20,375
Map-maker:
R. Brown, Architect [delin], W. Keeble, London [eng], Henry Besley, Directory Office, South St, Exeter [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
27.3 x 15.7
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
important roads only
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: [Some buildings shown in Dockyard at Devonport, including Guard House, Gun Wharf, Steam Yard, Laboratory and Victualling Office].
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 2140 (2) [1830]; BL 796.d.30 [1845]; BL 796.d.51, CUL Atlas 7.84.17, NLS A.45.e.13 [1846]; West Country Studies Library DEV.1846.ROU, West Country Studies Library LM B/EXE/1850/WAR [?1849]; CUL Atlas 7.85.15 [1854].
Industry:
rope walk, oil/soap etc
Railways:
routes, named
Gardens:
nurseries
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: St John's Cross shape.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Anchor indicates three points of the compass.
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1857-9
1:2500
1:10,560
1884
1:2500
1:10,560
1892-3
1:2500
1:10,560
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