Carnarvonshire-Bangor-1834 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22993

Map Date:

1834

Repository reference:

Carnarvon RO XM/Maps/680/1

Historic county:

Carnarvonshire

Town name:

Bangor

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SH580720

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SH 6070

Map title:

'Plan of Bangor from actual survey by John Wood 1834.'

Comments on map:

Left of centre, above scale: list of fairs, note of population in 1831.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

John Wood, Edinr [sv, pb], Forrester & Nichol Lithog. Edinburgh [lith], Bangor [sell].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

67.0 x 51.3

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

owners: Mr Pennant's property brown, others green [discoloured].

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

internal revenue

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Carnarvon RO XM/Maps/680/1, LGC Map 5447, Map 5448 [originals]; BOL G1/C16.6 [1992: in Ashley Baynton-Williams, Town and city maps of the British Isles 1800-1855, London: Studio Editions, 1992].

Industry:

engineering, ship yards, timber, misc: Slate yards.

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways

Magnetic data:

diagram

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

newspaper offices

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Not in built-up part].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right: 1:31,680 of borough, etc.

Relief:

shown partially: [Marked slope].

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown: [In usual detail].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1887-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560