Essex-Colchester-1846 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20522

Map Date:

? 1846

Repository reference:

Colchester Library, Local Studies

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:

'Plan of the borough of Colchester and the liberties in the county of Essex.'

Comments on map:

Colchester Library copy is coloured by parishes: dates it c.1846, Suffolk RO dates it 1847.

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

George Gilbert, Surveyor, Colchester [author], Day & Son, Lithrs to the Queen [lith], John Taylor Jr, Essex Standard Office, Colchester [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

87.3 x 91.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (symbol): [Windmills are disk-and-X-type].

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, water works

Places of Worship:

incomplete Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, misc.: Ordnance Field.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, workhouses

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Colchester Library Local Studies [original & p'copy], Colchester RO T/M 255/1, Suffolk RO [Ipswich] HC.14:3176/62.

Industry:

bricks/tiles

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, passenger stations, misc: Viaduct, pictorial, 'side on'.

River and foreshore features:

springs

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Parkland:

botanic gardens, private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Roman Way, Abbey, Priory.

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom centre: town hall.

Borders:

keyboard type

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1875

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560