Essex-Leyton-1839 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23493

Map Date:

? 1839

Repository reference:

Waltham Forest Archives

Historic county:

Essex

Town name:

Leyton

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ385865

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3889

Map title:

'Map of the parish of St Mary, Leyton in the County of Essex.'

Comments on map:

For rating: note added, by J.W. Russell, Leyton Borough Council Borough Engineer & Surveyor, September 1952, that 'This map was constructed by John Humphreys and Henry Francis Gadsden, Surveyors, of Old Broad Street, City of London, from their survey and valuation commenced about January 1838', and cites the following vestry minutes: 12 Oct 1837 (p.53), 7 Dec. 1837 (p.64), 8 Feb. 1838 (p.55), 25 July 1839 (p.74), 28 May 1844 (p.112), 4 July 1844 (p.113). Areas numbered: reference not to hand. Splendid physical landscape, not much text.

Scale:

1:2376

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

143 x 217

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Waltham Forest Archives.

Railways:

routes, named

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Map material:

parchment

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Arable and grass shown.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1862-3

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:2500

1:10,560