Essex-Colchester-1848 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20523

Map Date:

1848

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:

'Colchester, 1848.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy. 4/- plain, 5/- coloured. Oriented west, making a portrait-shaped sheet: it is unclear what is gained by this. Letterpress reference.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

E. Monson, Land Surveyor, Berner's St, Ipswich, Land Surveyor, Anastatic Draughtsman, &c [author, dr, pb], Cowell's Anastatic Press, Ipswich [pr], E. Benham, High St, Colchester [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

47.5 x 66.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, water works, misc: Well [public?].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, police, internal revenue, misc: Rectifying Office [?].

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, volunteer parade grounds, town walls: Ordnance Field, Barrack Ground.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, workhouses, misc: Provident Asylum.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

BOL (E)C17:70 Colchester (3), CUL Maps.61.84.1, Colchester RO T/M 399/1 [1848]; Colchester Library Local Studies [photo].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, lime/cement, ship yards, textiles, timber

Railways:

routes, earthworks, goods depots, named, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

springs

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

botanic gardens

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Abbey Gate, St Botolphs ruins.

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

learned societies, mechanics institutes

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Monuments:

obelisks

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only: [One outlying hotel].

Ordnance Survey's

1875

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560