Essex-Colchester-1835 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18915

Map Date:

1835

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

Map title:

'Map of the borough of Colchester as determined by the commissioners appointed by The Honourable the Commons House of Parliament. 1835.'

Comments on map:

This is a cut-down copy, evidently of Kemp/Dewhirst provenance, presumably partly enlarged from the 'Dawson' 1:31,680 of 1832, but with quite refined building morphology in the town centre.

Scale:

1:25,344

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

35 x 48

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, boundaries

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

water works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] T72/12.

Industry:

distilling

Gardens:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1875

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560