Carnarvonshire-Carnarvon-1834
CBTM:
22997
Map Date:
1834
Repository reference:
Carnarvon RO XM/Maps/731
Historic county:
Carnarvonshire
Town name:
Carnarvon
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SH480628
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SH 4863
Map title:
'Plan of the town of Caernarvon from actual survey by John Wood 1834.'
Comments on map:
Bottom left: table of post miles; bottom centre left: list of fairs; below right centre: note of borough and parish populations in 1831.
Scale:
1:1584
Map-maker:
John Wood [sv, pb], W. Murphy, Edinr. [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
58.2 x 61.3
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised: Ordinary hatching, boldened casing.
Water transport infrastructure:
piers, quays, boat houses, misc: Cranes.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Carnarvon RO XM/Maps/731 [1834: pb Wood]; Carnarvon RO XM/Maps/1167, XM/Maps/1333/1, XM/Maps/7230 [copies]; Carnarvon RO XM/Maps/3781, XM/Maps/493 [1848: pb Humphreys ]; Carnarvon RO XM/Maps/9537, XM/Maps/1167 [1852]; 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, metallurgical processing, ship yards: [Copper Ore Yard].
Railways:
industrial tramways/waggonways
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Castle, walls, Helens Causeway.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Incomplete in built-up part].
Waterbodies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom right: a redrawing of Speed, captioned 'This Plan was drawn in the reign of Henry the Eighth, in the year 1530, & found in the possession of W.R. Jones, Caernarvon'.
Relief:
prominent hills
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Above Speed copy].
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfold].
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown: [Usual comprehensive cover].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1887
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897
1:2500
1:10,560
1887
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897
1:2500
1:10,560
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