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Derbyshire-Alfreton-1852

CBTM:
20381
Map Date:
1852
Repository reference:
Derbyshire RO D.4231/1
Historic county:
Derbyshire
Town name:
Alfreton
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SK409556
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SK 4258
Map title:
'Plan of the town of Alfreton in the county of Derby. 1852.'
Comments on map:
No legend, and not much text: a contrast to the Ordnance Survey treatment. Sewers are later additions.
Scale:
1:528
Map-maker:
Richard G. Coke C.E. Ankerbold Chesterfield, Henry C. Roper, Surveyor, Doncaster [? sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
181 x 330 [crumbly at top].
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use, utilities: Gardens green.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
masonry distinguished: This is inferred from paucity of grey/brown buildings.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, sewers, misc: [Gas works with gasholder.] Sewers and drains brownish, gamboge and blue according to type (including old sewers); privvies (o), Wells, Pumps.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Penal:
jails/reformatories: [Lock-Up].
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Derbyshire RO D.4231/1.
Industry:
rope walk
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Waterbodies:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
relict industry: Old Tan Yard.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
misc: Farm Yards.
Stated measuerments:
basement levels, spot heights: The unspecified datum is very 'high', as a stream is noted as 4.3 below datum.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1876-7
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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