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Suffolk-Gorleston-1869

CBTM:
22570
Map Date:
1869
Repository reference:
Norfolk RO Y/BE/2/A1/1
Historic county:
Suffolk
Town name:
Gorleston
Map type:
Utility
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TG525038
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TG 5207
Map title:
'Gorleston Drainage
Comments on map:
Frontages and sewers only: a come-down after Laing's Yarmouth survey [Exeter 22569].
Scale:
1:792
Map-maker:
Tho. Wright, Civil Engineer & Surveyor, Bank Plain, Norwich [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
329 x 86.7
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, decorative, utilities
Road names:
partly
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted.: Very incomplete.
Turnpikes:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
quays, misc: Life Boat House.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, sewers: Sewers bright red.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, police: [Local Board of Health Office].
Education and academic:
schools
Known copies of map:
NfkRO Y/BE A1 [1869: whole of Gorleston]; NRO Y/BE 2/199 ['1869': J.W. Cockrill: Southtown sewers only].
Industry:
food/drink
Clubs and societies:
Oddfellows
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds
Map material:
non-tracing textile
Stated measuerments:
spot heights, other: Sewer diameters and gradients; spot heights to 0.01 ft.
Ordnance Survey's
1882-3
1:2500
1:10,560
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