Flintshire-Rhyl-1851
CBTM:
23011
Map Date:
11.1851
Repository reference:
Flint RO DC/243
Historic county:
Flintshire
Town name:
Rhyl
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ007813
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 0189
Map title:
'Draf [sic] plan of the township of Rhyl compiled from corrected copies of the Parish and Rhyl Marsh Enclosure Maps'.
Comments on map:
This might perhaps be a starting point for the published map of 1861 [Exeter 23003]. Purpose might be sanitary planning: cf 1852 map [Exeter 15409], and treatment of cemetery and waterworks; some detail (? more recent) in red, e.g. railway.
Scale:
1:4752
Map-maker:
L.F. Hughes [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
68.0 x 56.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, roads, water, boundaries, land-use, other: Proposed cemetery. Buildings are a mixture of grey frontages, and black- and red-hatched detached ones.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Frontages only.
Water transport infrastructure:
quays, misc: Packet Station.
Sanitary and utility information:
water works, misc: [Waterworks in red]; Commenct. of Sewer.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public/administrative boundaries:
township
Known copies of map:
Flint RO DC/243 [recorded at both Exeter 15380 and Exeter 23011].
Industry:
smithing
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations: Fences only.
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa
Waterbodies:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown: Proposed: coloured green, with red pecked line denoting distances of 300 yards from it.
Walls, embankments, etc:
Embankments.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
sand hills
Ordnance Survey's
1870-1
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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