Carmarthenshire-Carmarthen-1850 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23084

Map Date:

1850

Repository reference:

Carmarthen RO Acc.5027

Historic county:

Carmarthenshire

Town name:

Carmarthen

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SN412001

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SN 4114

Map title:

'Original plan of Carmarthen by J. Ward Armstrong & B. Mocatta 1850.'

Comments on map:

Marked lack of text.

Scale:

1:528

Map-maker:

J. Ward Armstrong & B. Mocatta [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

322 x 145

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: Sink Holes & Gully Grates [small square infilled biscuit], Wells & Pumps [circle infilled blue, long rectangle with square infilled blue], Water Taps [+], Existing Drains [red], Do. Water Pipes [blue], Lamp Posts (o), Levels [in red], Fire Plugs [black square in black [? blue] line], Cocks [blue circle in blue line].

Colouring:

utilities, other: Sanitary information.

Buildings:

archways, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings, walls: Public buildings fully hatched, others only hatched around their edges. A few buildings shown with pecked sides and pecked hatched infill. Archways are pecked 'X'. Some garden, etc, walls apparently shown, by double lines.

Mills:

watermills: Wheel apparently shown in plan at a site at eastern end of town.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas mains, sanitary hazards, water works: Privvies shown by 'o', but not in legend.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Evident from shapes.

Public buildings:

misc: Evident from shapes.

Known copies of map:

Carmarthen RO Acc.5027.

Industry:

uncertain: Evident from some building shapes, especially at a site at eastern end of town.

Gardens:

shown: [A few path-layouts only].

Antiquities:

Possibly to be inferred from cross-hatching at castle.

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Sidewalks.

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, spot heights, other: Datum point ['above Low Water at the Gas Works']. Bench marks to 0.01 ft, spot heights and what seem to be basement (or privvy?) heights to 0.1 ft.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560