Essex-Colchester-1830
CBTM:
18916
Map Date:
? 1830
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] T72/12
Historic county:
Essex
Town name:
Colchester
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL995252
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 9925
Comments on map:
Unidentified engraved map, with marginalia etc cut away, and extended and revised in manuscript; record here is of the original engraved map. (Manuscript additions include Water Works, Iron Foundry and New Gaol.) Original map looks much earlier than 1830s [but is not the Chapman & Andre map [Exeter 18551] either]. Date is merely guesswork.
Scale:
1:4752*
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
63 x 43 [maximum engraved area], 125 x 86 [maximum manuscript-extension area].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills, watermills, (pictorial)
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
TNA [PRO] T72/12.
Gardens:
shown: Both symbol and annotation used.
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Antiquities:
Remains of St Botolphs Priory [church with piers].
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
prominent hills
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Ordnance Survey's
1875
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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