Carmarthenshire-Carmarthen-1834
CBTM:
23036
Map Date:
1834
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] T72/12
Historic county:
Carmarthenshire
Town name:
Carmarthen
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SN412001
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SN 4114
Map title:
'Plan of Carmarthen from actual survey 1834'.
Comments on map:
Note of population in 1831, lower centre and list of 'Post miles' to right.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
John Wood, Surveyor, Caernarvon [sv, pb], W. Murphy Edinr & John Wood [eng: sic], Caermarthen [sold at].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
77.7 x 56.3
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
boundaries
Colouring:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, internal revenue
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
magazines/arsenals: [Armoury Depot].
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
cross, markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish, Ward, misc: 'Franchise'.
Known copies of map:
TNA [PRO] T72/12.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, engineering, textiles, abbatoirs, uncertain: Furnace Mills.
Gardens:
shown, nurseries
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [Some owners in less built-up parts].
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
shown partially
Monuments:
Monuments: [Pictons Monument].
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown: Including 'Intended St Pauls Church'.
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
relict industry: Old Pottery.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1885
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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