Devonshire-Torquay-1883 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18245

Map Date:

? 1883

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 2140 (9), Devon RO 382 add/P20; BLML Maps 2140 (8)

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Torquay

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX920640

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 8956

Map title:

1:7920: [cover:] 'Westley's Plan of Torquay from the Ordnance Survey, corrected to the present time, with an index showing the exact position of over 1000 villas, terraces, streets, &c., coloured, scale, 8 inches to the mile'; [Map:] 'A plan of the town of Torquay

Comments on map:

Published in two versions: mapping is exactly the same, except that the 1:5280 version (scale more like 1:5544) omits horizontal squares 21-28 of the 1:7920 version (scale more like 1:8280). Street, etc, indexes are same type-setting in both. Westley's Tourists' guide to Torquay, Torquay, Westley, n.d. (see Exeter 22611) advertises on p.xiii 'Two entirely new plans of Torquay', based on Ordnance Survey, published by Arthur Westley, with index to villas, terraces, etc: 8-inch, 12-inch, q.v. ante: there was also a 1:31,680 environs map (copy at BLML Maps 2123 (13)).

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

W. Parker [dr], Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London S.W. [lith], Arthur Westley, 10 Strand, Torquay [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

72.5 x 56.5 [1:7920, overall: map area 69.0 x 42.3; 1:5280 is 75.3 x 76.0 overall, map area 61.2 x 73.2].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

Reference system

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

police

Defence and military:

misc.: Admiralty Experimental Works [at Chelston].

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

bathing, sports grounds: [Ladies Bathing Cove, Gentlemen's Bathing Place].

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

1:5280 version: BLML Maps 2140(8); CUL Maps c.58.88.2 [gives scale as 11''], TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/116; 1:7920 version: BLML Maps 2140(9); Devon RO 382 add/P20.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Gardens:

nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc

Miscellaneous:

No woods shown, but pattern of buildings sometimes gives this effect. The map is better for names and locations than for building morphology.

Antiquities:

Kents Cavern.

Clubs and societies:

unspecified

Post and telegraphs:

flagstaff: Pictorial.

Reference system:

squaring

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1860-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560