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Devonshire-Plymouth-1835

CBTM:
19107
Map Date:
11.1835
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] T72/14
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Plymouth
Map type:
boundaries
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SX480540
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 4555
Map title:
'Plan of Plymouth with the division of the borough into wards November 1835.'
Comments on map:
Manuscript in imitation of down-market engraved style: much more detailed than Exeter 19106. 'John Buckle' signature bottom left, but presumably as boundary investigator. 'wards' altered to 'sections' in title.
Scale:
1:15,840
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
25.8 x 23.7
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
other: Vignetted effect alongside main roads: adds to downmarket-litho look.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Turnpikes:
shown
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: [Citadel].
Known copies of map:
TNA [PRO] T72/14.
Industry:
stone/builders' yards, rope walk, misc: Starch Factory.
Railways:
industrial tramways/waggonways: [Dartmoor Railway].
Miscellaneous:
Numbers up to 41: unclear what it is that they refer to, unless it be the 'sections' referred to in the title.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Cemeteries:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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