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Berkshire-Reading-1895

CBTM:
21250
Map Date:
2.1895
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 145.b.12(6)
Historic county:
Berkshire
Town name:
Reading
Map type:
Insurance
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
SU714733
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 7172
Map title:
'Insurance plan of Reading.'
Comments on map:
Note of population, water supply and fire-fighting equipment on graphic index sheet at 1:4800, which covers a larger area than the detailed plans. Letterpress index to streets and 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc.
Scale:
1:480
Map-maker:
Charles E. Goad, Civil Engineer, 53 New Broad St, London, E.C. [author].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
53 x 62 [standard sheet size: x 13].
Number of parts:
13
Legends:
Buildings: Brick buildings 30 feet to eaves and over [red], under this [pink].
Colouring:
Buildings, water: Hand-coloured.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
utilities
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Heights to eaves and of towers, where applicable.
Public buildings:
shown
Welfare and charitable:
shown
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 145.b.12(6), Reading Library.
Industry:
shown
Railways:
routes, goods depots, motive power depots, platforms, rails, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
shown
Service and professional:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
industrial owners: [Occupiers of larger retail and industrial premises].
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
shown
Retail activity:
shown generally
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1875-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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