Durham-Darlington-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19882

Map Date:

1840

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] RAIL 1037/483

Historic county:

Durham

Town name:

Darlington

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ288146

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 3115

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Darlington, in the county of Durham. 1840.'

Comments on map:

Good for detailed shapes of buildings, but poor for description: clean-cut, but not wholly revealing.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

Thomas Dixon, Land-Surveyor, Darlington [author], R. Martin, Litho, 26 Long acre, London [lith].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

63.0 x 96.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Seem suspiciously scanty.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.aa.18.G.60 [with MS water supply additions by T. Hawksley, 5:1849], Darlington Library U.418.a.40 L.C. [4 copies, 33824-33827], Darlington Library U.418.f L.C. 'in map tube', [acc.26824], Durham RO D/BO/G 13, TNA [PRO] RAIL 1037/483.

Industry:

uncertain, misc: Coal Depot.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners: [Two only].

Waterbodies:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1854

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560