Cambridgeshire-Chatteris-1864 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21210

Map Date:

? 1864

Repository reference:

CUL Maps.bb.53(1).86.3

Historic county:

Cambridgeshire

Town name:

Chatteris

Map type:

Miscellaneous

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL393860

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 4193

Map title:

'Plan shewing the property destroyed and damaged by the great fire at Chatteris in the Isle of Ely, and county of Cambridge, which occured 14th. September, A.D. 1864.'

Comments on map:

Mounted on the back of Bradshaw's railway map, February 1876. Bottom centre are notes of the amounts raised for relief of the sufferers (including 50 bibles from 'the B & F Bible Society', and the Relief Committee, and bottom right is a reference to houses and cottages destroyed, with owners, occupiers and descriptions: 75 destroyed, 15 damaged.

Scale:

1:1584

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

44.0 x 64.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: Property damaged and destroyed.

Colouring:

other: Property damaged and destroyed.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown: Including houses and other buildings destroyed and damaged.

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.bb.53(1).86.3 [1864]; CUL Maps.bb.53(1).94.1 [photo, 1940].

Industry:

misc: Blacksmiths Shop, Bone Mill, Granary.

Railways:

goods depots, named, platforms, passenger stations

Gardens:

shown: Including 'Rose trees & shrubs principally destroyed'.

Miscellaneous:

Harvested crops which were destroyed are indicated.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Miscellaneous service buildings:

[Numerous sheds and yards, including Coal Sheds].

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

cow-keeping, pig-keeping: [Cow Houses and Pig Sheds].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560