Devonshire-Torquay-1884
CBTM:
22611
Map Date:
? 1884
Repository reference:
BL 10358.a.39
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:
SX8956
Map title:
'Plan of the town of Torquay'.
Comments on map:
F.p. [1] of Westley's tourists' guide to Torquay, Torquay: Westley, n.d. [BM RD blue 20 OC 84]. Has colouring boxes, not filled in, for districts or wards.
Scale:
1:21,120
Map-maker:
Stanford's Geogl Est., Charing Cross, London [authors], Torquay: Westley's Library [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
20.3 x 16.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Water transport infrastructure:
harbours
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, infirmaries
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
uncertain: Presumably borough.
Known copies of map:
West Country Studies Library B/TOR7.1864.COC [Not found, 20:2:03.]; BL 10358.a.39 [1884: in Westley's Tourists' guide to Torquay, Torquay, Westley, n.d.]; West Country Studies Library B/TOR.7.1881.COC [Not found, 20:2:03.].
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, foreshore material specified
Leisure and entertainment:
aquariums, baths/spa
Clubs and societies:
unspecified
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
hotels or principal inns only
Stated measuerments:
spot heights: Only a few, on hilltops.
Tenement boundaries group:
less built-up parts only
Ordnance Survey's
1860-1
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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