Bedfordshire-Bedford-1854 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

14020

Map Date:

? 1854

Repository reference:

Bedfordshire RO X.133/11

Historic county:

Bedfordshire

Town name:

Bedford

Map type:

Utility

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL050497

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 0549

Comments on map:

Described as 'Gas Map' on the modern case and in the card index. '1854' added to mapmaker in red, in a later hand, but railway evidence points to pre-1855 anyway.

Scale:

1:792

Map-maker:

E.W. Salmon, Nottingham [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

215 x 242 [but now divided into 8, 60.5 x 107.5].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, boundaries, utilities

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, public buildings emphasised, bay windows, steps to buildings

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, gas mains, misc: Gas pipes in dark blue, with diameters, lamps (numbered), valves (?), direction-of-flow arrows.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Bedfordshire RO X.133/11 [original]; Bedfordshire RO X/1/88/1 [copy].

Railways:

routes, named

Waterbodies:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1881-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560