Cambridgeshire-Cambridge-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21203

Map Date:

? 1840

Repository reference:

CUL Views.x.5,13

Historic county:

Cambridgeshire

Town name:

Cambridge

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL449587

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 4459

Map title:

'Cambridge.'

Comments on map:

One of a small group of maps of the early 1840s made up from type: a curiosity more than anything else. Dated by CUL c.1842.

Scale:

1:12,000*

Map-maker:

R. Harwood, Typographer, Cambridge [? pr].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

18.5 x 14.7 [overall: map 18.5 x 11.3].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial: Gable-end effect.

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown: [Asterisks].

Known copies of map:

CUL Views.x.5,13.

Leisure and entertainment:

libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

botanic gardens

Antiquities:

Castle: bastions suggested.

Commons:

shown: Parkers Piece.

Ordnance Survey's

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560