Cornwall-Torpoint-1845 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23148

Map Date:

? 1845

Repository reference:

BL X.709/30511

Historic county:

Cornwall

Town name:

Torpoint

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX439551

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 4555

Map title:

'Plan of Torpoint as surveyed by the pupils of the Torpoint Classical and Mathematical School.'

Comments on map:

Reduced copy (not compensated for scale or dimensions), f.p. 130 in Gladys and F.L. Harris, The making of a Cornish town: Torpoint and neighbourhood through two hundred years, Redruth: Institute of Cornish Studies, 1976. Original in Carew Pole MSS: caption says 'probably made in the 1840's'.

Scale:

1:2400*

Map-maker:

Torpoint Classical and Mathematical School [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

26 x 17

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Known copies of map:

BL X.709/30511, BOL G.A.Cornw.8o 479 [1976, reduced: in G. & F.L. Harris, The making of a Cornish town, Redruth: Institute of Cornish studies, 1976].

Industry:

ship yards

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1857-9

1:2500

1:10,560

1884

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-3

1:2500

1:10,560