Dorset-Lyme Regis-1841
CBTM:
20529
Map Date:
1841
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 2159 (3)
Historic county:
Dorset
Town name:
Lyme Regis
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SY342921
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SY 2993
Map title:
'Plan of Lyme-Regis and environs 1841.'
Comments on map:
'Turner & Co. Sc.', but the map is definitely litho. 1:21,120 inset of parish, possibly derived from Dawson's boundary map of 1832. Reference to buildings, but no longer post-miles or markets, etc.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
John Wood, surveyor, 53 Threadneedle St, London [sv], Turner & Co. Sc. Edinr. [? lith].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
56.0 x 60.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
harbours, misc: Bonding Yards, Ships entrance to Harbour or Cobb.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, misc: Well [? public].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, internal revenue
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 2159(3) [1841]; BOL G.A.Dorset 4o 99 [1969: in Henry Chessell, A portrait of Lyme, Town & Country Press, 1969].
Industry:
food/drink, textiles, uncertain: Factories, Mills.
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Not in more built-up part].
Relief:
prominent hills
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1887
1:2500
1:10,560
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