Bedfordshire-Leighton Buzzard-1848 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

13929

Map Date:

? 1848

Repository reference:

Bdf MA 79/1/1

Historic county:

Bedfordshire

Town name:

Leighton Buzzard

Map type:

Enclosure

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP920250

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 9328

Comments on map:

'Leighton Bussard': one of a group of four enclosure maps, the others being at Exeter enclosure 13928 and 13930-1. Surveyor is from award. Covers the town in some detail.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

James King, Winslow, Buckinghamshire, Land Surveyor [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

63 x 66

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works: 'Gafs Works'.

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

Bedfordshire RO MA 79/1/1, MA 79/2.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely

Waterbodies:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1878-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560