Durham-Hartlepool-1843 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19731

Map Date:

8.12.1843

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 2280 (1)

Historic county:

Durham

Town name:

Hartlepool

Map type:

Hydrographic

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ527337

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 4935

Map title:

'Plan of the bay and town of Hartlepool, in the county of Durham.'

Comments on map:

Interesting combination of full-blown chart with detailed land-mapping of town: in effect, coastal zone mapping 150 years before the OS-Hydro experiments. Scale for town seems to be 1:6336 (or 1:6250?): 5.84 inches to 1 nautical mile.

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

R.H. Laurie, 53 Fleet St, London, and J. Proctor, Bookseller, Hartlepool [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

51.0 x 70.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, harbours, jetties, lighthouses, piers, misc: Coffer Dam, Slip, Gridiron, Locks, Bonding Timber Yard, [coal] Drops (numbered), Crane, Dock Office; some lighthouses pictorial, 'realistic': cf windmills, which seem more conventional.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls: ['Town Wall', Batteries].

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 2280(1).

Industry:

engineering, lime/cement

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

sluices, foreshore: [Foreshore shown in detail].

Ferries:

ferry

Stated measuerments:

soundings, other: Acreages of docks and slake.

Ordnance Survey's

1857

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560