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Glamorganshire-Cardiff-1840

CBTM:
22155
Map Date:
? 1840
Repository reference:
Glamorgan RO
Historic county:
Glamorganshire
Town name:
Cardiff
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST184764
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 1875
Map title:
'... plan of Cardiff...'
Comments on map:
Recorded from Glamorgan Archive Service facsimile. Slightly different from Wood's usual style. Notes of fairs and population, and that most of the town belongs to the Marquess of Bute.
Scale:
1:3600
Map-maker:
John Wood [author], Leith & Smith, Edinr [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
46.0 z 71.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Canals:
shown, offices
Water transport infrastructure:
wharfs, misc: Steam Packet offices, Bond Yard.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
drill halls
Welfare and charitable:
dispensaries, infirmaries
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Cardiff Library [original: not for issue: dated 1840 below title]; Cardiff Library, Glamorgan RO D/D Xjf 61/6 [photo]; BOL C17:70 Cardiff (35), Cardiff Library, CUL Maps.bb.19.G.67, LGC Map 5450 [1990: Glamorgan Archives].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, glass, ship yards, rope walk, timber, uncertain: Steam Mill.
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations: No details at all at station.
River and foreshore features:
old river courses
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, misc: Billard Room.
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Castle.
Landowners and occupiers:
industrial owners
Waterbodies:
shown
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
ballast hills
Dedicee of map:
Most Hon. John Crichton Stuart, Marquess of Bute, Earl of Dumfries, Baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle.
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown: [Exhaustively].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1878
1:2500
1:10,560
1898-9
1:2500
1:10,560
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