Cumberland-Carlisle-1853 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

15782

Map Date:

1853

Repository reference:

Cumberland RO (map chest); Cumberland RO Ca/E/1/931

Historic county:

Cumberland

Town name:

Carlisle

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NY400460

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NY 4155

Comments on map:

20 x 1:528 plus 12-inch uncoloured skeleton index, 36 x 24 inches inside neat lines. Numbered I-XX. Surveyed 1853. Two scales, feet (to left) and chains (to right). Lettering and general styling in close imitation of Ordnance Survey. Cumberland RO Ca/E/1/931 is sheets XXI-XXVIII, manuscript extensions, with 'standard' colour; not very detailed.

Scale:

1:528

Map-maker:

Richard Asquith, Carlisle [sv], Day & Son [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

96.0 x 66.0 [x 20: + 8 x 91 x 62].

Number of parts:

29

Legends:

altitude information

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, transport.: Walls infilled grey; public buildings (including banks and hotels) carmine, other inhabited buildings pink.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, public buildings emphasised, archways, glazed areas, steps to buildings, walls: [Sheds].

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, sanitary hazards: Privvies (o), Pump; abbreviations: DB, CH, St, W. Tap, CoH, F.P., RS [rain spouts].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Penal:

jails/reformatories: Gaol shown in plan: no appropriations.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, workhouses, misc: House of Recovery.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses, sports grounds: 'W.Post.' is presumably associated.

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, misc, boundary markers: Ancient City Boundary.

Known copies of map:

Cumberland RO [map chest] [1853 litho 'originals']; Cumberland RO Ca/E/1/931 [MS extensions].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, chemicals, engineering, food/drink, stone/builders' yards, textiles, warehousing, timber, abbatoirs, misc: Engine Pond.

Railways:

earthworks, goods depots, motive power depots, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations, misc: Booking Office [with buttresses], signals [not many]. Rails under roofs are omitted: elsewhere are infilled grey.

River and foreshore features:

sluices, misc: Botm. of Beck.

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

mechanics institutes, learned societies

Monuments:

Monuments: [Lonsdale Monument: that in market place is unnamed].

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pig-keeping

Cemeteries:

shown

Garden and park buildings:

sundials

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown: Hotels treated as public buildings, and coloured full carmine; hotels and inns roman, public houses italic.

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, basement levels, spot heights, other: Bench marks to 0.01 ft, basement levels, Surface of Water heights and spot heights to 0.1 ft. 'The altitudes are given in feet and those indicated thus (B.M. 43.25) refer to Marks made on Buildings, Walls, &c. Datum 10 feet below the River Pier at the Canal Pumping Engine, being the lowest Summer Water at that Place.'

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Streets with fenced ?building plots.

Ordnance Survey's

1863-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560