Cornwall-Falmouth-1854 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20083

Map Date:

1854

Repository reference:

Lancashire Record Office LSL/P03

Historic county:

Cornwall

Town name:

Falmouth

Map type:

Health Hazard

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SW807328

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SW 8233

Map title:

'Plan of the town and borough of Falmouth shewing the boundary to which it is proposed to apply the Public Health Act, May, 1854.'

Comments on map:

In Robert Rawlinson, Report... on... the sanitary condition of... Falmouth, London: HMSO, 1854, f.p. [ii]. It looks as though derived from the 1837 Municipal Boroughs map (TNA [PRO] T72, etc). Only included on grounds of scale.

Scale:

1:15,840

Map-maker:

Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

26.3 x 33.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Colouring:

water

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish, misc: Proposed public health boundary.

Known copies of map:

Lancashire RO LSR/P03

Ordnance Survey's

1877-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560