Cambridgeshire-Wisbech-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22325

Map Date:

1840

Repository reference:

CUL Maps.bb.18.G.39

Historic county:

Cambridgeshire

Town name:

Wisbech

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TF462097

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TF 4608

Map title:

'Town of Wisbech', 'Map of the borough of Wisbech divided into wards'.

Comments on map:

Includes 1:18,000 map of the whole borough, including the rural part. Date seems to be 23 August 1840.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

Dewhirst & Nicholls, Civil Engineers, London [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

76.5 x 51.5 [printed area: town 28.0 x 29.3].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

customs

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, workhouses, misc: Mrs Mayers Asylum.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Ward

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.bb.18.G.39.

Industry:

food/drink, rope walk, timber

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

shown partially: [Mound].

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560