Dorset-Blandford Forum-1835 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18880

Map Date:

? 1835

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] T72/12

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Blandford Forum

Map type:

boundaries

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST885065

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 8210

Map title:

'Plan of the borough and town of Blandford forum.'

Comments on map:

Not very refined, but colourful.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

James D. Harvey, Engineer [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

46.5 x 57.0 [but cut down at top and bottom].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, boundaries, land-use

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown: Two outlying houses pictorial.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, misc: Gates to churchyard.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] T72/12.

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560