Bedfordshire-Leighton Buzzard-1819 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20661

Map Date:

1819

Repository reference:

Bedfordshire Archives X.21/589

Historic county:

Bedfordshire

Town name:

Leighton Buzzard

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP920250

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 9328

Map title:

'A map of the town of Leighton Bussard surveyed in 1819.'

Comments on map:

All tenements numbered: accompanied by book of reference. Fields named, but little other text. Clean-cut map, without water-lining.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

B. Bevan Junr [sv, pb], J. Cary, Strand [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

67.5 x 53.3 [engraved area: plate 68.0 x 54.0].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (pictorial): [Both post and tower mills].

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

wharfs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Markets and exchanges:

cross, markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Bedfordshire RO X.1/34, X.21/589, Stratford upon Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, DR 18/25 (Series D) Bundle 29.

Borders:

latitude & longitude shown: At 1 second intervals.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Dedicee of map:

James Henry Leigh, Esq., M.P., Lord of the Manor.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1878-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560