Cornwall-Liskeard-1842 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23454

Map Date:

1842

Repository reference:

Cornwall Centre, Redruth [open-access drawers]

Historic county:

Cornwall

Town name:

Liskeard

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX252645

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 2365

Map title:

'Map of the town of Liskeard, in the county of Cornwall. By Charles P. Carlos, Surveyor, 1842.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy. Probably a straightforward derivative from the tithe map: no area numbering.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

Charles P. Carlos, Surveyor [author], Jas F. MacCabe, Castle St, Holborn, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

49.5 x 49.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, public buildings emphasised: Houses cross-hatched, other buildings single-hatched, church with bold cross-hatching.

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Church and Chapel named in gothic, others in sans-serif capitals.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Cornwall Centre [photo].

Industry:

textiles

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents

Waterbodies:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1881

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560