Berkshire-Reading-1834 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22515

Map Date:

3.12.1834

Repository reference:

Reading Central Library Local Studies map LMC 621

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:

'Map of the borough of Reading as determined by the Commissioners appointed by The Honourable the Commons House of Parliament 1834'.

Comments on map:

Their usual style: reference on right summarises voters in each parish and borough population, and notes first MPs elected in 1832.

Scale:

1:9504

Map-maker:

Kemp and Nichols, Land-surveyors, London [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

49.0 x 40.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries: Borough boundary.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: As usual with these mapmakers, quite detailed for the scale.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Also several unnamed crosses.

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish

Known copies of map:

Reading Library LMC 621.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, food/drink

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Abbey ruins.

Waterbodies:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

out-of-town inns only

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560