Cambridgeshire-Cambridge-1858
CBTM:
14444
Map Date:
1858
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 1660(16)
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:
'Map of the Borough of Cambridge with the parish boundaries. From a Trigonometrical Survey by Richard Reynolds Rowe, F.R.I.B.A. Town Surveyor. 1858.'
Comments on map:
Bottom right: 'Entered at Stationers' Hall, April 9th 1872.' Scale is 1 inch to 176 feet, 1:2112. Exeter 14439 presumably derives from this survey.
Scale:
1:2112
Map-maker:
Richard Reynolds Rowe, F.R.I.B.A. Town Surveyor [author].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
159 x 138
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Except south of Lensfield Road and the colleges, which are mapped in full detail with archways ('X'), only frontages and the junctions of divisions are shown; a curious effect.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, misc: Spinning House.
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 1660(16), BOL C17:70 Cambridge (23), Cambridgeshire RO 'borough records', Cambridgeshire RO, [reference shelves], Cambridge City Library 1858**, CUL Maps.R.a.14, Maps.A.53.87.1 (2 copies), Maps R.a.15.
Railways:
routes, motive power depots, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, museums
Parkland:
botanic gardens: [Old Botanic Garden].
Waterbodies:
shown
Commons:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete
Ordnance Survey's
1885-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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