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Berkshire-Windsor-1845

CBTM:
20952
Map Date:
? 1845
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 1455 (3)
Historic county:
Berkshire
Town name:
Windsor
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
SU969768
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 9379
Map title:
'Plan of part of Windsor & Park, to illustrate the principle of Contour Lines. Surveyed and drawn for Her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, by a party of Royal Sappers and Miners, under the direction of Captain H. Tucker, R.E., to accompany the Report of Sir Henry de la Beche & Captain Veitch, on the Drainage and Sewerage of Windsor and its Vicinity.'
Comments on map:
Top right: 'Health of Towns Inquiry', so 1845 assumed.
Scale:
1:1056
Map-maker:
[Ordnance Survey [sv]]; Standidge & Co. Litho London [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
79.8 x 56.7
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
altitude information
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
building infill omitted, public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: With Riding House, Royal Stables, etc.; interiors in detail, but a lack of description.
Welfare and charitable:
misc: Navy Pensioners.
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
extra-parochial, Parish
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 1455(3), CUL Maps.bb.51.84.1.
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Relief:
slopes shown
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Stated measuerments:
contours, spot heights: Contours at 4 ft intervals: some spot heights to 1 ft, others to 0.01 ft (? benchmarks). Notes of datum (20 feet below flood mark of December 1841: shown by bridge), contour figures, and ticks on the downward side written on three of the contours towards the bottom right: an unusual, if not unique, arrangement.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1866-7
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897-8
1:2500
1:10,560
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