Bedfordshire-Luton-1842 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19196

Map Date:

1842

Repository reference:

Luton library, reference section

Historic county:

Bedfordshire

Town name:

Luton

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL092212

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 0322

Map title:

'The town of Luton, in the county of Bedford.'

Comments on map:

May be as for tithe. Everything is number: reference elsewhere.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

Henry Davies, Kimpton [sv], Standidge & Co., 77 Cornhill, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

69.0 x 80.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, public buildings emphasised: Uninhabited buildings not hatched.

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets: With posts in market place.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 1380(2), Bedfordshire RO X.214/4, Luton Museum [originals]; Luton library, reference section [photo from Luton Museum]; BL 010268.i.4, TNA [PRO] Library (in Henry Austin, History of Luton, II (1928), 150).

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top right: Luton parish church, uncaptioned.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1878-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899-1900

1:2500

1:10,560