Essex-Harwich-1832 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18595

Map Date:

? 1832

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/1360

Historic county:

Essex

Town name:

Harwich

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TM260325

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TM 2833

Map title:

'Plan of Harwich and it's vicinity.'

Comments on map:

To show Ordnance and other lands: unenlightening for 'civil urban' detail.

Scale:

1:4800

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

140.9 x 109.8

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, land-use

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

lighthouses, naval dockyards

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, misc.: Ordnance Jetty, Dept and Cement Manufactory, C.R.E. Office.

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/1360.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Relief:

slopes shown: [Form-lining].

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:2500

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560