Cumberland-Keswick-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19212

Map Date:

1852

Repository reference:

Manchester Central Library LS 614.0942 B.9

Historic county:

Cumberland

Town name:

Keswick

Map type:

Health Hazard

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NY265325

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NY 2622

Map title:

'Town of Keswick. Shewing the present state of the drainage, lighting, water supply, &c &c.'

Comments on map:

In Robert Rawlinson, Report to the General Board of Health on ... the town ... of Keswick..., London: HMSO, 1852. Houses and groups of buildings, etc, on the plan are numbered, and these connect to sanitary notes on pp 86-95 of the Report. e.g. 10 is owned by Edward Barron; is two private dwelling houses, with 1 pump and 1 privvy; remarks: 'The privvy is common to both tenements. Pump impregnated with gas.' (The gas was from a nearby gasworks.) There is also a 1:6336 of the whole township accompanying the report.

Scale:

1:1584

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

43.5 x 68.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

general legend

Colouring:

water, utilities

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised: Legend has 'Public buildings', 'Inns and spirit vaults' and 'Shops, dwelling houses' in various degrees of shading.

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas mains, drains, sewers, water mains, misc: Named well; sewer grates, privvies, ashpits; gas and water pipes red, sewers and drains blue.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: Boundary of properties rated under the General Lighting Act.

Known copies of map:

Manchester Central Library LS 614.0942 B.9.

Industry:

stone/builders' yards, textiles, misc: [Carding Mill], Pencil Works.

Leisure and entertainment:

museums, libraries/newsrooms

Clubs and societies:

Oddfellows

Relief:

prominent hills

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfold].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1862

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560