Surrey-Epsom-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21261

Map Date:

7.1852

Repository reference:

Surrey RO 3796/1

Historic county:

Surrey

Town name:

Epsom

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ208608

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 2264

Map title:

'Town of Epsom.'

Comments on map:

Style and high quality of draughtsmanship suggest that an OS-trained man may have been responsible. Most writing is upright Roman lower-case. Lee and Stevenson sign and date bottom right: they are not necessarily the draughtsmen. No indication of purpose: the distribution of spot-heights seems odd, and there are no large-scale sheetlines. The title cuts into some detail. Two scale bars, for feet and links. Land-use tends to be by annotation rather than symbol.

Scale:

1:2640

Map-maker:

Lee & Stevenson, Civil Engineers, London [? sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

116 x 137

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, decorative: Grey tree-shadow.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Mills:

windmills, (symbol): [X on side].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Add cross-hatching.

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Woodland:

shown: [The tree-symbols are the least OS-looking thing about the map].

Known copies of map:

Surrey RO 3796/1.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, turntables, rails, passenger stations: Including both wagon and locomotive turntables.

Gardens:

shown, market gardens, nurseries: [Paths, and Nursery and Market Garden by annotation].

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Borders:

decorative: Cased grey.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Stated measuerments:

spot heights: In red, to 0.01 ft. Those in the town are at reasonable intervals, say 100 yds or so, but there is a much greater density on Epsom Common, running in lines, producing a strange effect.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1866-7

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-5

1:2500

1:10,560