Berkshire-Reading-1840
CBTM:
22516
Map Date:
1840
Repository reference:
Reading Central Library Local Studies map LMB 279
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:
'Plan of the town of Reading 1840.'
Comments on map:
From Arthur Freeling, Great Western Railway Companion, Reading: George Lovejoy, 1840.
Scale:
1:12,672*
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
36.7 x 27.7
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Frontages only.
Mills:
watermills: Caversham Mill noted as 'a good Fishery Station'.
Water transport infrastructure:
wharfs
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, misc: Tank, Water Tower.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, police
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
Reading Library BX/NQ [in The Windsor Railway companion, London, Bell, 1840]; BOL GA Berks 8o 15(3), Reading Library LMB 279 [in Arthur Freeling, Great Western Railway Companion, Reading, Lovejoy, 1840].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, engineering, furniture/pottery, textiles, uncertain: Kilns.
Railways:
routes, earthworks, named, passenger stations
Antiquities:
Abbey ruins, battle sites.
Clubs and societies:
learned societies
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom left: view of reading Market Place; bottom right: plan of abbey.
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
spoil heaps: Evident spoil-heaps at potteries and brickworks.
Ordnance Survey's
1875-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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