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Carnarvonshire-Carnarvon-1826

CBTM:
22998
Map Date:
9.11.1826
Repository reference:
Carnarvon RO XM/Maps/731
Historic county:
Carnarvonshire
Town name:
Carnarvon
Map type:
Utility
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SH480628
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SH 4863
Map title:
'Map of proposed water works at Carnarvon.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopy of unknown provenance. Fields etc along the line of pipes are numbered, yet this does not quite look like a deposited plan. It is unclear what the various letters by the pipes in the streets denote.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
Robt. Williams, Surveyor [author], George Smith, Lithog., Liverpool [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
52 x 41
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
utilities
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted.: Generalised in vicinity of pipes; omitted within walls.
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Sanitary and utility information:
water works, misc: Proposed water supply, with mains as continuous line and service pipes as dotted lines, and Corporation and private company cisterns; St Helen's Wells.
Public buildings:
customs
Education and academic:
schools
Known copies of map:
Carnarvon RO XM/Maps/8484.
Antiquities:
Castle.
Waterbodies:
shown
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
hotels or principal inns only
Tenement boundaries group:
less built-up parts only: Some outside walls.
Ordnance Survey's
1887
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897
1:2500
1:10,560
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