Flintshire-Rhyl-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

15409

Map Date:

9.1852

Repository reference:

Flint RO IC/38

Historic county:

Flintshire

Town name:

Rhyl

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ007813

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 0189

Comments on map:

'Surveyed by John Myatt September 1852 for Drainage Purposes'. Not a General Board of Health product, at all.

Scale:

1:792

Map-maker:

John Myatt [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

196 x 124

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

general legend

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, public buildings emphasised

Sanitary and utility information:

sewers: With access points.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Flint RO IC/38.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, warehousing: [Store House].

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations, misc: Office, Warehouse.

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Title is on scroll with, to left and 'underneath', wheatears and part of a fluted column, and to right a ram.

Borders:

decorative

Symbolic elements:

Columns, wheatears, ram: in cartouche.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Ruler-style scale. Three sailing boats in standard choppy sea enliven the sea area.

Cemeteries:

shown

Stated measuerments:

basement levels, spot heights, other: Depths, diameters and gradients (as explained in note), basement levels (very faded); 'The Levels are taken from a Datum 30 feet below the Door Sill of the Mostyn Arms Hotel...'

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete