Durham-Durham-1865 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19729

Map Date:

1.8.1865

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 2265 (5)

Historic county:

Durham

Town name:

Durham

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ273421

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 2742

Map title:

'Plan of the city of Durham from the Ordnance Survey 1849, shewing the city, municipal & parochial boundaries.'

Comments on map:

Looks at first sight very much like a photocopy from Ordnance Survey, but in fact is an independent production, with wholly sans-serif lettering, which is most successful. Top of map corresponds to Ordnance Survey 6-inch sheet 27, as does description of Battle of 1346, but some revision. (Fold down middle of BLML copy suggests that it may have been extracted from a book: this might explain the oddities of get-up and content.) Facsimile signature 'E. Roberts', bottom right. 'Surveyed up to 1865' by Ebdy.

Scale:

1:8280

Map-maker:

T.C. Ebdy, Architect & Surveyor, Durham [sv], J.H. Le Keux, Durham [eng], Andrews & Co., Durham [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

24.8 x 20.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, pumping stations

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish, township, Ward: [City & municipal boundary].

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 2265(5), CUL Maps.c.60.86.1 [1865].

Industry:

uncertain, misc: Carpet Factory.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, libraries/newsrooms

Antiquities:

Site of battle in 1346 [at Neville's Cross].

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Monuments:

obelisks

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Maidens Bower.

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1856

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560