Devonshire-Exeter-1863 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18740

Map Date:

[1863]

Repository reference:

West Country Studies Library WES.1863.HAN

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:

'Exeter'.

Comments on map:

In A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, 5th edn, London: Murray, 1863, f.p.17: evidently woodblock; also in ibid, ed 6, 1865, p.7, ed 8, 1872, f.p.2.: all seem the same.

Scale:

1:15,840*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

10.2 x 13.8

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

important roads only

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Undescribed black specks elsewhere are mostly churches.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

blind, hospitals

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BL 10028.c.8, West Country Studies Library [1863: 5th ed]; BL 10028.c.9, West Country Studies Library [1865: 6th ed]; BL 10028.c.10, West Country Studies Library [1872, ed 8].

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations: No tunnels, and the line to Yeovil turns due north at west end of what is now Blackall Road: Lions Holt Farm (unnamed) is unmolested.

Gardens:

nurseries: [On north-west side of Queen St, i.e. quite wrong by 1863].

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500