Devonshire-Sidmouth-1835 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18240

Map Date:

29.12.1835

Repository reference:

Devon RO 382 add/P13

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Sidmouth

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SY127878

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SY 1295

Map title:

'Plan of the parish of Sidmouth and of the parish of Salcombe Regis in the County of Devon.'

Comments on map:

Ex Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Below title: 'The Proposed Site for the chapel is coloured Light Red.': is in fact All Saints. Author and date are bottom right, preceded by 'Enlarged from the Ordnance Map of Devonshire': Salcombe Regis portion is incomplete, whereas Sidmouth has had names, and probably parks, added.

Scale:

1:15,840

Map-maker:

Murray Vicars, Surveyor, St Paul Street, Exeter [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

38.0 x 34.4

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, boundaries, land-use, other: Hachures grey, parks/grounds, church and vicarage sites red, parishes various colours: attractive map.

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: Site of Proposed Harbour.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Known copies of map:

Devon RO 382 add/P13.

River and foreshore features:

sea walls

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Relief:

prominent hills

Ordnance Survey's

1888

1:2500

1:10,560