Cheshire-Chester-1890 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19039

Map Date:

[1890]

Repository reference:

RGS Library

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Chester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ405665

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 4166

Map title:

'Chester'.

Comments on map:

In K. Baedeker, Great Britain ... handbook for travellers, Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, and London: Dulau, 2nd edition, 1890, f.p. 270, 3rd edition, 1894, f.p. 270, 4th edition, 1897, f.p. 274. [Text is by J.F. Muirhead: see p.v.]

Scale:

1:10,400

Map-maker:

Wagner & Debes Gegl. Estabt. Leipsic [? dr, pr], [Karl Baedeker, Leipsic, Dulau & Co., London [pb]].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

19.5 x 14.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads: Both buildings and road casings are on brown plate.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown, wharf

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, misc.: 'Drill Sheet'.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

bathing, race courses, sports grounds, misc: With Grand Stand; Refreshment Rooms [for race course?], Training Ground; [Floating Bath: in river].

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL 10109.aa.3 [1890]; BL 10108.d.30 [1894]; BL 10108.ddd.30 [1897]; RGS library [in K. Baedeker, Great Britain ... handbook for travellers, Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, and London: Dulau, 2nd edition, 1890, f.p. 270, 3rd edition, 1894, f.p. 270, 4th edition, 1897, f.p. 274].

Industry:

engineering, metallurgical processing, ship yards, timber

Railways:

routes, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, theatres, etc, museums: Including 'Water Tower (Museum)'.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Remains of Roman Buildings.

Monuments:

Monuments

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Reference system:

squaring: 2.75 cm squaring.

Cemeteries:

shown

Street tramways:

routes shown

Miscellaneous religious group:

Convent.

Ordnance Survey's

1871-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560