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Devonshire-Barnstaple-1843

CBTM:
18228
Map Date:
1843
Repository reference:
Devon RO 'rolled with Barnstaple tithe map'
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Barnstaple
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SS558333
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SS 5633
Map title:
'Plan of the Town of Barnstaple from actual survey 1843'.
Comments on map:
'References', bottom right, includes a few 'public' buildings, and post miles.
Scale:
1:1584
Map-maker:
John Wood, Surveyor, 34 Paul St. Exeter [sv, pb], Turner & Co. Sc. Edinr. [eng].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
59.5 x 95.8
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours, boundaries
Colouring:
roads, water, boundaries, owners: Corporation and bridge property.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
(unspecified type)
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, infirmaries
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, Parish
Known copies of map:
Devon RO, 'rolled with Barnstaple tithe map' [original]; BL X.800/37019, BOL G.A. Devon 4o 284 [1983: transcript in Lois Lamplugh, Town on the Taw, Chichester: Phillimore, 1983].
Industry:
lime/cement, furniture/pottery, textiles, timber
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Most tenements adjoining principal streets].
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom right: 'Plan of the Borough & Environs of Barnstaple', [1:15,840], 33.5 x 40.2 cm.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1885
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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