Berkshire-Reading-1880 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21418

Map Date:

[1880]

Repository reference:

BL 010349.e.9

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:

'Reading'.

Comments on map:

In Dicken's Dictionary of the Thames from Oxford to the Nore. 1880. An unconventional handbook, London, Charles Dickens, p.173: only included on grounds of scale.

Scale:

1:23,760

Map-maker:

Stanfords Geogl Estab [author], [Charles Dickens [pb]].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

14.8 x 10.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Sanitary and utility information:

water works

Places of Worship:

landmarks only

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Known copies of map:

BL 010349.e.9 [annual edns 1880-94].

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560