Cambridgeshire-Wisbech-1853
CBTM:
18202
Map Date:
1853
Repository reference:
Wisbech Museum
Historic county:
Cambridgeshire
Town name:
Wisbech
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TF462097
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TF 4608
Map title:
'Detailed Plan of the Town Part of the District of Wisbech made for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1848.
Comments on map:
No reference: title + 21 sheets. Stamped 'Second Class Map' by General Board of Health, 30 Dec 1853. Functional rather than pretty: 'neat working plan' type. Not co-extensive with Exeter 14443.
Scale:
1:528
Map-maker:
R.W. Dobson & C. Weekes, Civil Engineers & Surveyors [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
98 x 66 [x 21 + 1] [sheets 35.9 x 23.875 inches].
Number of parts:
22
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, archways, bay windows, steps to buildings
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
wharfs, misc: Crane Wharf, Bonding Yard.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, lamps, sanitary hazards: Pump,, Midden (several: walled in); abbreviations: R.S., Cn, St, o for privies, D.B., CoH, G.H., S.H., W.S., L.P., St, Sl.H, S.G., C.H., K.S., C.P.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, Parish
Known copies of map:
Wisbech Museum.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, rope walk, textiles, warehousing, timber, misc: Bone Mill.
Railways:
goods depots, named, turntables, platforms, rails, passenger stations
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, sluices: [Old Sluice].
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, public halls, theatres, etc, museums
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Old Roman Bank.
Waterbodies:
shown
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
cow-keeping
Cemeteries:
shown
Garden and park buildings:
ice houses: [Hachured mound].
Stated measuerments:
bench marks, basement levels, spot heights, other: Spot heights and basement levels to 0.1ft, bench marks to 0.01 ft; 30.3 low water Oct. 15. 1853, Bottom of Culvert 38.6, Bed of Canal 36.3.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1885-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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here