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Devonshire-Exeter-1888

CBTM:
21224
Map Date:
7.1888
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 145.b.10(8)
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Exeter
Map type:
Insurance
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
SX921924
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 9392
Map title:
'Insurance plan of Exeter.'
Comments on map:
Note of population, water supply and fire-fighting equipment on graphic index sheet at 1:2400, which covers a larger area than the detailed plans. Letterpress index to 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc. There are also four extension sheets of June 1902, along South Street and the River Exe, and into Cowick Street, which effectively more than double the cover.
Scale:
1:480
Map-maker:
Charles E. Goad, Civil Engineer, 53 New Broad St, London, E.C. [author].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
53 x 62 [standard sheet size: x 4].
Number of parts:
4
Legends:
sanitation: Fire Plugs. ['For explanation of signs used on Detail Plans see inside of front cover', which is not present.]
Colouring:
Buildings, water: Hand-coloured.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished
Sanitary and utility information:
utilities
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Heights to eaves and of towers, where applicable.
Public buildings:
shown
Welfare and charitable:
shown
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 145.b.10 (8).
Industry:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
shown
Service and professional:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
industrial owners: [Occupiers of larger retail and industrial premises].
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
shown
Retail activity:
shown generally
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1875-6
1:500
1:2500
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