Essex-Halstead-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

14185

Map Date:

? 1852

Repository reference:

Essex RO D/DU 371/33

Historic county:

Essex

Town name:

Halstead

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL813306

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 7730

Comments on map:

Essex RO catalogue suggests 1855, but 1852 is written in pencil, bottom left. No 1:528 has so far been traced. Scale is in feet.

Scale:

1:2640

Map-maker:

J. Alexander Lock [sv], Waterlow & Sons, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

100 x 66

Number of parts:

2

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

windmills: [Town is infested with windmills].

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

Essex RO D/DU 371/33, Halstead Museum [original]; ColcLS [photocopy].

Industry:

textiles

Waterbodies:

shown

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, spot heights

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560