Denbighshire-Ruthin-1859 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23125

Map Date:

11.1859

Repository reference:

LlGC Map 10538

Historic county:

Denbighshire

Town name:

Ruthin

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ123583

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 1459

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Ruthin.'

Comments on map:

Purpose unclear: whole town seems to be mapped, but only certain tenements are tinted, suggesting an estate application. Signed by Smith, November 1859. Buildings lettered: no reference available.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

William Smith, Ruthin [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

81.0 x 52.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water, land-use, owners

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

LGC Map 10538.

Industry:

textiles, timber

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Castle.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Not in more built-up part].

Relief:

prominent hills

Tenement boundaries group:

intersections with frontages only: Back-fences mostly not mapped.

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:2500

1:10,560

1898-9

1:2500

1:10,560