Devonshire-Topsham-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18271

Map Date:

? 1840

Repository reference:

Devon RO 949M/P1

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Topsham

Map type:

Highways

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX965881

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 9392

Comments on map:

[No title.] Note on map says is watermarked 1840. Map has lost its eastern sheet, so it shows 'Proposed Line of R'; object was evidently to show two road schemes, one replacing the road past the mill, the other going over a 5-arch bridge roughly on the course of the later railway. Two unexplained parallel lines at bottom of map, one blue, one red. (Possible that small part of north-west of town omitted: otherwise complete-looking.)

Scale:

1:1584*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

125.2 x 75.9 [originally 150].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, other: Houses brown, other buildings light sand colour; proposed roads in red; some lettering in grey.

Road names:

inside built-up area only

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

quays: Town Quay, Steam Packet Quay.

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

Devon RO 949M/P1.

Industry:

lime/cement

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

nurseries

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Two limekiln owners].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top right: elevation of bridge.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Ordnance Survey's

1888

1:2500

1:10,560