Dorset-Dorchester-1835 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23346

Map Date:

? 1835

Repository reference:

Dorset RO D/COO:E/6

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Dorchester

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SY690906

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SY 7192

Comments on map:

Dated 1834 or later in Dorset RO list: it evidently derives from the map of ? 1810 [Exeter 23343]. A minority of tenements numbered: reference elsewhere.

Scale:

1:792

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

106.0 x 120.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

water, boundaries, owners: Colours show Corporation property, and certain groups of institutional owners.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Pump: pictorial.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Dorset RO D/COO:E/6.

Gardens:

shown: [Large annotated area].

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Reason for naming certain non-institutional owners is unclear].

Map material:

tracing-paper

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886

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