Berkshire-Reading-1887
CBTM:
21022
Map Date:
[1887]
Repository reference:
BLML PP.2505.ybb(1)
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 Reading'.
Comments on map:
Inset on 'Berkshire', 1:84,480, in Kelly's directory of Berkshire, etc, 1887; as transfer therefrom, with extract from 1:84,480, in Kelly's Reading directory, with Caversham and neighbourhood, for 1889-90, London: Kelly, [1889], [BL PP.2505.ye.50]. Evidently a straightforward derivative from Ordnance Survey.
Scale:
1:10,560
Map-maker:
Kelly & Co., Directory Offices, 51 Great Queen St, Lincolns Inn Fields, London, W.C. [dr, eng, pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
29.3 x 22.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
boat houses
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, pumping stations, water works
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, police
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
rifle ranges
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
fairgrounds, markets
Known copies of map:
BL PP.2505.ybb(1), Aylesbury Library [1887]; PP.2505.ye/50 [1889]; Leicester University Library H.942.KEL [1891]; BOL Dir.Gen.Top.d.3/1895, C17:13 (59), Aylesbury Library, Maidenhead Library [1895]; BOL Dir.Gen.Top.d.3/1899, Slough Library, Leicester Uni Lib 962.BER/KEL [1899] [via Eugene Burden].
Industry:
food/drink, abbatoirs: The biscuit factory is shown in plan but not named.
Railways:
routes, goods depots, motive power depots, named, passenger stations
Parkland:
public parks
Ordnance Survey's
1875-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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