Devonshire-Plymouth-1900 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19838

Map Date:

? 1900

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3.a.83

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:

[Cover:] 'Plymouth & Devonport', [map:] 'Plymouth, Devonport, Stonehouse, and neighbourhood.'

Comments on map:

Undated: BM RD 25 Sep 1900 blue.

Scale:

1:10,560

Map-maker:

John Bartholomew & Co. Edinr [author, pr], [cover: W.H.Smith, 186 Strand, London [pb]].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

57.2 x 41.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, land-use: Main roads only; public open space light green. (Building hatching gives impression of grey.)

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, piers, quays, naval dockyards, wharfs: [Dockyard in full detail, including Keyham tunnel, etc].

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, water works, sewage disposal

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town walls, misc.: [Citadel, etc, in full detail, including described buildings]; Royal Engineers Offices, Military Prison.

Welfare and charitable:

blind, hospitals, orphanages, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3.a.83 RGS Eng & Wales S/S 58 [1899, sheet map]; BLML Maps 17.c.4., BOL C17 b.11, RGS 10.F.4., West Country Studies Library OM B/PLY/1898/BAR [1899: Newnes [pb], pl 69 in The Royal Atlas of England & Wales]; Plymouth City Library [pl.85 from atlas].

Industry:

lime/cement, ship yards, rope walk, textiles, timber, misc: Cement Works, Tar Yard.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc, misc: Camera Obscura.

Parkland:

public parks

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

learned societies

Monuments:

misc: Old Eddystone Lighthouse [on Hoe, but no Drake or Armada memorials].

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Corporation Seat.

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560