Dorset-Shaftesbury-1848 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23368

Map Date:

1848

Repository reference:

Dorset RO D.462/1

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Shaftesbury

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST862229

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 8324

Map title:

'Plan of the borough and town of Shaftesbury Dorset 1848'.

Comments on map:

Areas numbered: no reference available, and rather lacking in text. Grey speckling over much of map.

Scale:

1:792

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

157 x 100

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Colouring:

Buildings, boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, partly

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools: Mostly treated as public buildings, but a private one is treated as an inhabited house.

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish

Known copies of map:

Dorset RO D.462/1.

Gardens:

shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Weighing Machine.

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560