Devonshire-Lynton-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

01804

Map Date:

1840

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/9/267

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Lynton

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SS721492

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SS 7447

Comments on map:

Rural part is at 1:3168.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

D. Vaughan for B.H. Galland [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Number of parts:

2

Colouring:

land-use

Road names:

shown

Building names:

shown

Buildings:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

piers

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds: [Bowling Green].

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/9/267, Devon RO [diocesan copy], Devon RO Z17/2/10.

Industry:

lime/cement

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, weirs and waterfalls: [Salmon Weir].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Barrow, Danish Fort, Castles.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

unspecified

Relief:

slopes shown, cliffs

Commons:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Symbolic elements:

Above title to Vaughan's plan a plover holds a flag on top of which a smaller plover perches.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Estate boundary ownership:

shown

Miscellaneous physical features:

Comments on surface ('Very steep Ang. 60 dgs', 'Steep rocky pasture' etc).

Garden and park buildings:

summer houses

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1887

1:2500

1:10,560