Cumberland-Wigton-1832 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22215

Map Date:

1832

Repository reference:

BOL G.14/C.17.21

Historic county:

Cumberland

Town name:

Wigton

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NY155484

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NY 2142

Map title:

'... Plan of Wigton...'

Comments on map:

Recorded from 20 % half-tone on p.106 in John Higham, The antique county maps of Cumberland, Carlisle: Bookcase, 1997: location of original seems to be the author. Usual reference to public buildings, etc: this is nearly illegible, as is the map proper. Population note, bottom left.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

John Wood [sv, pb], [? T. Clerk, Edinburgh [eng]].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

42 x 61

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BOL G.14/C.17.21.

Industry:

textiles

Gardens:

shown

Magnetic data:

diagram, value (undated)

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown: [Usual John Wood style].

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Dedicee of map:

Earl of Egremont.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1864

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560