Essex-Colchester-1872 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18971

Map Date:

[1872]

Repository reference:

RGS Library

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 and its environs'.

Comments on map:

In A handbook for travellers in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, London: Murray, [1872], and 3rd edition, 1892, f.p. 31 and 33.

Scale:

1:28,800

Map-maker:

Edwd Weller [author], John Murray, Albemarle St, London [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

20.8 x 15.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town walls, misc.: Camp.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, infirmaries, mental, workhouses

Known copies of map:

RGS Library [1872: A handbook for travellers in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, London: Murray, f.p.31]; BL 10353.h.15, [1875: A handbook for travellers in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, London: Murray, f.p.31]; BL 2364.a.13, Cambridgeshire RO [open access], RGS Library [1892: A handbook for travellers in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, London: Murray, 1892, f.p.33].

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Antiquities:

Roman and monastic remains.

Ordnance Survey's

1875

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560