Devonshire-Plymouth-1891 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21249

Map Date:

7.1891

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 145.b.12(5)

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Devonport, Plymouth

Map type:

Insurance

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SX480540

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 4555

Map title:

'Insurance plan of Plymouth.'

Comments on map:

Note of population, water supply and fire-fighting equipment on graphic index sheet at 1:4800, which covers a larger area than the detailed plans. 'Vol.1': no other present, but another sheet was issued later, in June 1902. Letterpress index to streets and 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc.

Scale:

1:480

Map-maker:

Charles E. Goad, Civil Engineer, 53 New Broad St, London, E.C. [author].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

53 x 62 [standard sheet size: x 10].

Number of parts:

10

Colouring:

Buildings, water: Hand-coloured.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Water transport infrastructure:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

utilities

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Heights to eaves and of towers, where applicable.

Public buildings:

shown

Welfare and charitable:

shown

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 145.b.12(5); Plymouth City Library.

Industry:

shown

Railways:

routes, goods depots, motive power depots, platforms, rails, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

shown

Service and professional:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners: [Occupiers of larger retail and industrial premises].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

On sheet 2: section through Theatre Royal and Royal Hotel; on sheet 8: section through warehouses on Millbay docks.

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

shown

Retail activity:

shown generally

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560