Berkshire-Abingdon-1838 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20630

Map Date:

? 1838

Repository reference:

Oxford Library, Oxfordshire Studies MPC 489

Historic county:

Berkshire

Town name:

Abingdon

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU498971

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 4993

Map title:

'Plan ... of Saint Helen... Abingdon...'

Comments on map:

Modern-looking photograph, reduced to about 23 % of original size, and details recorded may be incomplete: original supposed to be at the parish church. Companion to smaller plan of unbuilt-up part of parish, MPC 488. Purpose unclear, but may be rating: all houses seem to be numbered. Distinctly 'first class' look.

Scale:

1:396

Map-maker:

Joseph Dymoke [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

165 x 118

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Oxford Library, Oxfordshire Studies MPC 489

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560