Sussex-Hastings-1852
CBTM:
22406
Map Date:
8.1852
Repository reference:
Hastings Public Library, Local Studies Section
Historic county:
Sussex
Town name:
Hastings
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ825095
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 7811
Comments on map:
Recorded from photographic copy. Original may be either with town's environment planning section, or at Hastings Museum. Gant was borough surveyor. Plain, functional style: presumably what Chadwick would have preferred, rather than the Ordnance Survey one.
Scale:
1:528
Map-maker:
William S. Gant, Archt, Hastings [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
94.7 x 61.5 [x 14].
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, archways, steps to buildings, walls: Archways are pecked-X; wider walls are double-thickness lines.
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills
Water transport infrastructure:
groynes, navigation aids
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, lamps, misc: KS, privvies [o], pumps, S [sink]; small circles on sides of buildings might possibly be bracket-lamps; East Well; Bourne Goulet [outfall on beach for covered stream]. Gas works indicated in plan only.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, misc: Government House.
Welfare and charitable:
infirmaries
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover: [One isolated tree].
Known copies of map:
Hastings Library [photo].
Industry:
food/drink, ship yards, textiles, uncertain, misc: Steam Mill, Coal Store, Foundry Stores.
Gardens:
shown, market gardens, nurseries: Flower-beds may be conventional rather than real.
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa
Antiquities:
Castle grounds.
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes, learned societies
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1872
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897-8
1:2500
1:10,560
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