Durham-Darlington-1837 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19993

Map Date:

22.3.1837

Repository reference:

Darlington Local Studies Library U.418.a.40 L.C. [acc.33820]

Historic county:

Durham

Town name:

Darlington

Map type:

Highways

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ288146

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 3115

Map title:

'Plan of the borough and town of Darlington'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy: location of original uncertain. Showing who is responsible for road repairs, with some notes thereon. Tenements numbered; reference elsewhere. Good for tenement divisions, no good for names or descriptions of buildings.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

Thos. Dixon, Land Surveyor, Darlington

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

57.0 x 47.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: Road-maintenance colours.

Colouring:

Buildings, roads: Roads in four different colours, according to whether maintained by Borough, Bondgate, Prebend Row or county.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised: A few buildings hatched but not described.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Darlington Library U.418.a.40 L.C.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1854

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560