Devonshire-Plymouth-1870
CBTM:
19835
Map Date:
? 1870
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 2140 (19)
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Devonport, Stonehouse, Plymouth
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SX480540
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 4555
Map title:
'John Heydon's map of Plymouth, Devonport, Stonehouse, Stoke, Morice-town, Ford, and the neighbourhood.'
Comments on map:
Dating from BLML 1967 catalogue (RD BM 1927 yellow); pre-1877 railway layout. The West Country Studies Library copy is dated '1859' in their lists. Details at Devonport suggest that this part at least derives from the Rutger map of 1838 [Exeter 20590], though the Market Place area has been revised to remove workhouse, etc. The Ordnance Survey 1:5280 might have assisted elsewhere. Quoted price of 6/- seems rather high for what it is.
Scale:
1:5280
Map-maker:
W.H. Maddock, 32 Frankfort St, Plymouth [lith, pr], John Heydon, 104 Fore St, Devonport & 47 Treville St, Plymouth [pb, sold].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
92.7 x 63.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, navigation aids, piers, naval dockyards, wharfs: [Dock Yards, Victualling Yard, shown in full detail; Keyham tunnel; Trinity Obelisk on the Hoe].
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established predominates: Includes an Intended Chapel, but many other non-Anglican places of worship seem to be omitted.
Penal:
jails/reformatories: Airing yards of prisons indicated.
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, town walls, misc.: [Citadel, etc, shown in full detail], Military Prison and Hospitals, Artillery Depot, etc.
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, blind, hospitals, infirmaries, orphanages, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 2140(19), TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/97 [1870], West Country Studies Library PM B/PLY/1859/HEY [dated '1859' in their lists]; Plymouth Archives 81/X67, (Ph 6 = CRO DD ME 92); Plymouth City Library [Plymouth portion only: photo] [Maddock, 1877]; TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/98 [Maddock, 1889].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink, lime/cement, ship yards, oil/soap etc, rope walk, textiles, timber, uncertain, misc: Pitch & Tar Works, Kilns.
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations: Pre-1877 layout.
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls, misc: Camera Obscura.
Antiquities:
Friary remains.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Corporation Seat, Bull Ring [both on the Hoe].
Towers:
clock tower
Cemeteries:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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