Dorset-Dorchester-1849 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23347

Map Date:

1849

Repository reference:

Dorset RO D/COO:E/7

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

Map title:

'Map of the Borough of Dorchester, Dorset. Surveyed A.D. 1810. Corrected 1849.'

Comments on map:

Another descendent of the ?1810 map [Exeter 23343]. Accompanied by 'Reference to the map of the Town of Dorchester corrected Anno 1848, listing Proprietors, Occupiers, Description of Premises and Remarks (which seem confined to noting freeholds, and leaseholds from institutional owners).

Scale:

1:792

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

108.0 x 101.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

water, boundaries, land-use, owners: Colours show Corporation, Earl of Shaftesbury's and Robert Williams's property.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Town Pump.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Anglican named in gothic: others treated as 'ordinary' buildings.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Dorset RO D/COO:E/6 [with book of reference].

Gardens:

shown: [Large annotated area].

Miscellaneous:

'Gothic' lettering used for title and most public buildings.

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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