Cambridgeshire-Wisbech-1867 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

14443

Map Date:

1867

Repository reference:

Cambridgeshire RO 1040/P1

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:

'Map of the town of Wisbech with New Walsoken, reduced from the Board of Health Map and revised and corrected by Charles Mumford, Assoc. Inst. C.E., Town Chamberlain, Surveyor to the Local Board of Health, &c.'

Comments on map:

Wisbeach and New Walsoken. Deposited by Wisbech borough engneer; much discoloured, making some public building names illegible. The parent 1:528 of 1853 is at Exeter 18202.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

Charles Mumford, Assoc. Inst. C.E., Town Chamberlain, Surveyor to the Local Board of Health, &c. [author], T. Way lith 18 Willington St Strand [lith], Leach & Son, Wisbeach [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

104 x 135

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

police

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Cambridgeshire RO 1040/P1.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, warehousing, timber: [Public Granary, Bonding Yards].

Railways:

routes, goods depots, motive power depots, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways: Track layouts, etc, look comprehensive.

Gardens:

market gardens

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, theatres, etc

Antiquities:

Castle.

Waterbodies:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Stated measuerments:

spot heights: Numerous, to 0.1 ft.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560