Essex-Shoeburyness-1857 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21476

Map Date:

1857

Repository reference:

Essex RO [Southend] D/DS 147

Historic county:

Essex

Town name:

Shoeburyness

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ940850

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 9186

Map title:

'Plan of the village of Shoeburyness in the county of Essex surveyed by John Hopkins 1857.'

Comments on map:

This seems to have been drawn mainly to show building lots; it is not very easy to relate to the actual landscape, then or now.

Scale:

1:480

Map-maker:

John Hopkins [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

118 x 90

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, land-use, other: Green trees, green building lots.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, archways: [Archways: pecked 'X'].

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: Landing stages.

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: A few Wells.

Woodland:

shown: [Also various Stumps and Pollard around fringes of estate].

Known copies of map:

Essex RO [ex Southend RO] D/DS 147 [original], D/DU 498/2 [tracing].

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [War Department Property].

Stated measuerments:

other: Road and frontage widths.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1859

1:1250

1872-3

1:2500

1:10,560

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560