Berkshire-Reading-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22430

Map Date:

1840

Repository reference:

BL C.55.i.2

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 new plan of the borough of Reading, 1840.'

Comments on map:

In a Grangerised copy of Coates's History of Reading, vol.2, f.p.450.

Scale:

1:15,840

Map-maker:

Edwd Weller [dr, eng], John Snare, Bookseller, 16 Minster St, Reading [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

22.5 x 18.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, misc: Water Tower; [both old and new gas works shown].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BL C.55.i.2 [vol.2, f.p.450], Reading Library LMB 365, LMB 494 [1840]; Berkshire RO T/M 131/2 [1840: photo]; Reading Library LM 199 [1842].

Industry:

bricks/tiles

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations: Fences only.

Gardens:

shown: [Extensive: one area named].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Antiquities:

Abbey ruins.

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

'the Oracle' [sic].

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

out-of-town inns only

Tenement boundaries group:

very incomplete: Larger houses on fringes only.

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560