Devonshire-Devonport-1842 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

01920

Map Date:

1842

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/9/383

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Devonport

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX454547

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 4555

Map title:

'Plan of the parish of Stoke Dameral in the County of Devon.'

Comments on map:

The urban part appears to derive from Rutger's map of 1838 [Exeter 20590]. Standidge's no. 184.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

I.H. Rutger, Surveyor [? sv], Standidge & Co., Litho, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

98.5 x 70.0

Number of parts:

3

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills: [Tide mills at Stonehouse].

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards, misc: Landing Places. Dockyard mapped in similar detail to the 1838 map [Exeter 20590].

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs, misc: Pipes from reservoir to town.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, town walls, misc.: Laboratory, Hospital, Telegraph House, Admirals and Government houses.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/9/383, Devon RO [diocesan copy], Devon RO 382 add/P16, Devon RO 4690Z/M1, Plymouth Archives 853/186, West Country Studies Library PM B/STO/1842/RUT [1842]; Plymouth Archives 853/187 [annot. to 1879]; Plymouth Archives 302/1 [corrected in MS to 1898].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

shown partially: Around defences only.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Ferries:

floating bridge, ferry

Cemeteries:

shown

Estate boundary ownership:

glebe: [Ancient Boundary of the Glebe].

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560