Cambridgeshire-Soham-1847 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20683

Map Date:

? 1847

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 1640 (10) [Cambridgeshire RO L.101/1(a).]

Historic county:

Cambridgeshire

Town name:

Soham

Map type:

Parish

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL593733

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 5873

Map title:

'Soham County of Cambridge', 'Town of Soham'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from photograph of uncertain data: BLML 1967 catalogue dating of '1800' is stylistically unlikely. Town is inset on parish map at 1:9504, and record refers to this. All fields etc numbered: cadastre not to hand, but rating seems possible. [The tithe map is 1841 by Lenny & Croft, 1:4752.]

Scale:

1:4752

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

91 x 137 [overall: town is 49 x 53].

Number of parts:

2

Colouring:

water, other: Some fields coloured for manorial copyhold.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Cambridgeshire RO L.101/1(a); BLML Maps 1640(10) [photo: original size], (11) [enlgt], CUL Maps.bb.53(1).93.40- [photo].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:2500

1:10,560