Devonshire-Tavistock-1867 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18249

Map Date:

1867

Repository reference:

Devon RO T1258M/E12

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Tavistock

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX482744

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 4871

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Tavistock Surveyed by Edward R. Dymoke 1867.'

Comments on map:

Each building numbered, but reference not in evidence. Shows what can be done with private enterprise mapping when suitably bankrolled.

Scale:

1:1152

Map-maker:

E.R. Dymoke, 15 Park Street, Westminster [sv], Kell Bros, Castle St, Holborn [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

145.2 x 96.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

altitude information

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, transport., other: Buildings grey; what are evidently non-Bedford lands are tinted pink; rails infilled lilac.

Road names:

generally: Including terraces.

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised, archways, steps to buildings

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, misc: Town Leat; privvies and dustbin enclosures in back yards.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Devon RO T1258M/E12, T1258M/E13a, T1258M/E13b.

Industry:

abbatoirs

Railways:

routes, earthworks, goods depots, turntables, platforms, rails, passenger stations, misc: Dotted lines indicate viaduct piers.

Gardens:

shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Monuments:

statues: [Duke of Bedford's Statue].

Walls, embankments, etc:

Lines with dots may be railings; thickened lines presumed to be walls between gardens.

Business & commercial:

misc: Bedford Yard, Bedford Office.

Stated measuerments:

bench marks: Benchmarks are in depths in feet below 'the bottom of the New Reservoir'.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1882-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560