Bedfordshire-Luton-1853 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20649

Map Date:

1853

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 1380(1)

Historic county:

Bedfordshire

Town name:

Luton

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL092212

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 0322

Map title:

'A pictorial map of Luton, the great straw bonnet emporium. With elevations of the principal buildings Warehouses, &c. With reference. By R. Todd, Luton, Beds. 1853.'

Comments on map:

Accompanying is The straw hat and bonnet dealers guide or a reference to the pictorial map of Luton, for 1853. With the principal business addresses, Luton: R. Todd, April 1853, plus twelve engravings of chapels, etc. Buildings are elevations to street (possibly stylised), and in plan behind. Buildings numbered, corresponding to the separate letterpress reference.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

R. Todd, Luton, Beds [? pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

88.0 x 107.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

fragmentary

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

township

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 1380(1), Bedfordshire RO X.1/37 [1853]; Bedfordshire RO X.1/38 [1870: pub T. Corney].

Industry:

food/drink: [No hats].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete: Rather obscured by the elevations.

Ordnance Survey's

1878-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899-1900

1:2500

1:10,560