Cardiganshire-Cardigan-1834 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23115

Map Date:

1834

Repository reference:

LlGC Map 5451

Historic county:

Cardiganshire

Town name:

Cardigan

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SN179461

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SN 1847

Map title:

'Plan of Cardigan from an actual survey 1834.'

Comments on map:

Wood's usual style. Bottom right are lists of fairs, post miles, and population in 1821 and 1831, excluding mariners. No publication note. Unusually, there is no reference to buildings.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

John Wood, Surveyor [sv], J. & W. Smith, Lithogrs, Edinburgh [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

64.0 x 54.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish

Known copies of map:

Ceredigion RO, LGC Map 5451, Map 5452, Map 5453, Williams & Williams 44 [original]; BL Maps 47.c.92 [1955: Lewis]; BL 010370.h.46, CUL Atlas.6.95.194 [1956: in W.J. Lewis, Ceredigion: Atlas hanesyddol, pb Aberystwyth]; BOL G1/C16.6 [1992: in Ashley Baynton-Williams, Town and city maps of the British Isles 1800-1855, London: Studio Editions, 1992].

Industry:

food/drink, lime/cement, warehousing, timber, misc: Grist Mill.

Gardens:

shown

Magnetic data:

diagram

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Site of Old Castle [very small].

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top right: large (23.7 x 23.0) map of borough.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1887-8

1:2500

1:10,560