Buckinghamshire-High Wycombe-1880 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20722

Map Date:

1880

Repository reference:

Buckinghamshire RO Ma.R/25

Historic county:

Buckinghamshire

Town name:

High Wycombe

Map type:

boundaries

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU864931

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 9193

Map title:

'Chepping Wycombe Borough Extension, Session, 1880.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy: location of original uncertain. Looks like derivative from Ordnance Survey. Some fields numbered in vicinity of boundaries, presumably for an accompanying book of reference.

Scale:

1:3960

Map-maker:

Vernon & son, Surveyors &c, High Wycombe [author], Waterlow & Sons Limited, London Wall, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

92.5 x 40.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Defence and military:

rifle ranges

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Ward: [Old and new borough boundaries].

Known copies of map:

Buckinghamshire RO MaR/25.

Industry:

food/drink, paper/print, furniture/pottery, timber

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, rails, passenger stations

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top right: inset map, 1:51,688, showing whole parish.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Estate boundary ownership:

fragmentary: [Lands to be acquired for sewerage purposes].

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560