Cambridgeshire-Ely-1851
CBTM:
14445
Map Date:
1851
Repository reference:
Cambridgeshire RO ECDC
Historic county:
Cambridgeshire
Town name:
Ely
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL541804
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 5583
Map title:
'Plan of the City of Ely 1851'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from good monochrome photograph; original too bulky for easy production. This looks like a Local Board of Health map, and there was a General Board of Health report on the town in 1850: William Lee, Report to the General Board of Health on... the city of Ely..., London: HMSO, 1850: accompanied by map, evidently derived from Ordnance Survey 1:63,360. Scales of feet and chains.
Scale:
1:528
Map-maker:
Chas M. Bidwell, Ely [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
310 x 285
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
general legend: Sewer grates and cesspools [c.p.], privies [circle within square], bench mark [B.M. with arrow], brick houses and buildings, wooden houses sheds and outhouses, stone paving and flagging, macadam or ballast.
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use, transport., other: Various colours for railway, brick and wooden buildings, stone paving and flagging, macadam or ballast, basement levels, spot heights and pipes.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences, fragmentary
Buildings:
masonry distinguished, archways, stables/coach houses, glazed areas
Water transport infrastructure:
docks
Sanitary and utility information:
conduits, gas works, sewers, sanitary hazards, misc: C.P. [sewer grates and cess pools, indiscriminately], privies [square with dot], Inspection Pipe; mysterious square ponds near workhouse, arranged in circle and feeding into sewer.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Cambridgeshire RO ECDC [original and photo].
Industry:
food/drink, smithing, lime/cement, textiles, shown, abbatoirs
Railways:
routes, goods depots, motive power depots, named, passenger stations
Gardens:
shown
Waterbodies:
shown, fish ponds
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
cow-keeping, pig-keeping, pounds/pinfolds: Including Cow Houses, Cow Sheds, Cow Lodge, Calf House, Bullock Shed.
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Mile Stone [square dot].
Stated measuerments:
basement levels, spot heights: 'Ordinary Low Water 1 ft below datum. Flood Water 4ft above do.' [in river], 'Datum taken 60 feet below stone, sill of entrance', [by cathedral]. 'The levels are taken from a datum 60 feet below the south entrance of the Cathedral, or 1 foot above low water in River Ouse.'
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1884-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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