Dorset-Weymouth-1841 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23366

Map Date:

1841

Repository reference:

Dorset RO BW:B/3

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Melcombe Regis, Weymouth

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SY680790

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SY 6382

Map title:

'Plan of Weymouth and Melcome-Regis made by John Wood 1841.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from old and weak photocopy from unknown original: some of the writing is quite illegiable. Table of post miles upper right.

Scale:

1:3168*

Map-maker:

John Wood, 4 [?], Paul __, Exeter [author], [?] Underwood, ____, Birmingham [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

51.5 x 68.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, quays: Pictorial ship at harbour mouth.

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries

Known copies of map:

Dorset RO BW:B/3.

Industry:

lime/cement

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Upper right: skeletal map of borough.

Relief:

prominent hills

Monuments:

statues

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [Weymouth].

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown: [In usual detail].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1863

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900-1

1:2500

1:10,560