Dorset-Lyme Regis-1825 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

12310

Map Date:

1825

Repository reference:

DOR RO D1/KL 28

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Lyme Regis

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SY342921

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SY 2993

Comments on map:

A large area corresponding to the harbour is left blank, making for a curious effect.

Scale:

1:4752

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

81 x 64

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

general legend: 'Explanation': 'Dwelling Houses', 'Outbuildings' (blue), 'Arable', 'Pasture', 'Orchards', 'Woods', 'Freehold' (uncoloured; quite a lot of the parish), 'Roads', 'Hedges, Gates &c', 'Sea & Brooks'.

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Road names:

inside built-up area only

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Turnpikes:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

piers: [Cob].

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

Dorset RO D1/KL 28, Dorset RO D.813/1.

Waterbodies:

shown

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Broken lines to east of town may be a proposed road (evidently not built).

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1887

1:2500

1:10,560