Devonshire-Exeter-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18312

Map Date:

1840

Repository reference:

Devon & Exeter Institution (map chest)

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Exeter

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX921924

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 9392

Map title:

'Plan of Exeter from actual Survey 1840'.

Comments on map:

Most churches and public buildings identified by numbers, with separate runs for each parish; as the latter are identified in the map by colour, and 8 colours are used for 24 parishes, and in the Reference by description ('St Stephens Parish Pink', etc), identification is hard going. Bottom left is Wood's customary table of post miles.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

John Wood, Surveyor, 34 Paul Street, Exeter [sv, pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

81.2 x 67.8

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

altitude information, colours

Colouring:

roads, water, boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

aqueducts, reservoirs, misc: Named Well.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses: Workhouse has brickfield appended.

Markets and exchanges:

bazaars, markets: [Rooke's Horse Bazaar: on site of St Lukes].

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Devon & Exeter Institution, Devon RO 4482M/P1 [UFP].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, lime/cement, misc: White Lead Works.

Gardens:

nurseries

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Vallum of Danes Castle [along present footpath].

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Relief:

prominent hills

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

'Intended Buildings' [Clifton Hill, Bellevue Park].

Stated measuerments:

spot heights: Note bottom left says that heights are in feet above 'high water'.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500