Berkshire-Windsor-1888 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22435

Map Date:

[1888]

Repository reference:

BL 12214.a.1

Historic county:

Berkshire

Town name:

Windsor

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SU969768

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 9379

Map title:

'Plan of Windsor.'

Comments on map:

In The Encyclopaedia Britannica, ninth edition, Edinburgh: Black, 1888, Vol XXIV, p.600. Evidently from a block: only included on grounds of scale.

Scale:

1:10,800

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

8.0 x 8.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

royal palaces

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, building infill omitted: No infill: not easy to see what's what.

Known copies of map:

BL 12214.a.1, CUL Ant.b.108.369.

Railways:

routes, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

misc: Fountains.

Leisure and entertainment:

riding schools

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Monuments:

obelisks

Cemeteries:

shown

Garden and park buildings:

summer houses

Ordnance Survey's

1866-7

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897-8

1:2500

1:10,560