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Cumberland-Whitehaven-1888

CBTM:
19883
Map Date:
? 1888
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/288
Historic county:
Cumberland
Town name:
Whitehaven
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NX973182
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NX 9914
Map title:
'Borough of Whitehaven.'
Comments on map:
Clean-cut, evidently derived from OS: rather lacking in text and detail. Stamped by Furness Railway, 11 July 1888.
Scale:
1:3000
Map-maker:
J. Gibson Dees, C.E., Whitehaven [author], Waterlow & Sons Limited, London Wall, London [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
55.5 x 64.8
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
boundaries
Colouring:
water
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Blocks only in built-up area.
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, harbours
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
race courses, sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
township, misc: Town and Urban Sanitary District.
Known copies of map:
TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/288.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, chemicals, metallurgical processing, furniture/pottery, timber, misc: 'Tobacco pipes': industry or farm?
Railways:
routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations
Waterbodies:
shown
Extractive activity:
coal
Cemeteries:
shown
Stated measuerments:
bench marks, spot heights: Both rather exiguous.
Ordnance Survey's
1862-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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