Dorset-Dorchester-1854 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23348

Map Date:

1854

Repository reference:

Dorset RO Photocopy 93

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Dorchester

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SY690906

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SY 7192

Map title:

'Dorchester District surveyed for the purposes of the Public Health Act 1848.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from unsharp photographic copy: location of original unknown. Stamped as second class survey, 12 Sep 1856. Rather light on text.

Scale:

1:528

Map-maker:

Arthur Whitehead, Exeter [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

122 x 84, 123 x 83, 79 x 97, 150 x 110

Number of parts:

5

Legends:

altitude information, Buildings, sanitation: Privies, flagging, new gratings, new examination shafts, new flushing shafts, levels, bench marks, basement heights, sluices, hydrants, flushing boxes for water mains.

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, other: Flagging, sewers, water mains.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, archways: ['X' for archways].

Mills:

(unspecified type): With Bone Houses.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, sewers, water mains, sanitary hazards: Iron Pipes noted; CHo, WH, Pumps.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories: [Prison has appropriations, including Tread Wheels].

Defence and military:

barracks: [Appropriations at barracks, including Stables with mens apartments over].

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Dorset RO Photocopy 93 [photo].

Industry:

food/drink, uncertain, timber: Workshops.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named: Noted as 'Unfinished cutting'.

Gardens:

shown: [Indicated by paths].

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, spot heights, other: Basement heights. Bench-marks to 0.01 ft. 'The Lamp posts have generally been taken for Bench Marks and Nails are driven at their feet between the flagging and curb.' Datum 20 feet below plinth of Gray's Bridge.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:10,560