Berkshire-Reading-1809 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21415

Map Date:

1809

Repository reference:

BL 10351.cc.21

Historic county:

Berkshire

Town name:

Reading

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU714733

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 7172

Map title:

'A plan of Reading 1809.'

Comments on map:

Following title and letterpress reference in The stranger in Reading in a series of letters from a traveller to his friend in London, Reading: Snare and Man, 1810.

Scale:

1:10,560*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

19.0 x 17.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills, (symbol): [Circle-with-projections symbols].

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

wharfs

Sanitary and utility information:

water works: [Water Engine].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BL 10351.cc.21, 291.e.20, G.3690, BOL GA Berks 8o 16.

Antiquities:

Abbey ruins.

Cemeteries:

shown: Baptists and Friends burial grounds, but not their places of worship.