Glamorganshire-Cardiff-1851 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

14885

Map Date:

30.9.1851

Repository reference:

MSGlam RO B/C

Historic county:

Glamorganshire

Town name:

Cardiff

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST184764

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 1875

Comments on map:

Signed by Capt Beatty. 5 sheets plus legend sheet. 1:10,560 index very skeletal; has legend for 1:528. Industry not described, though churches and antiquities appear.

Scale:

1:528

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

95 x 65

Number of parts:

6

Legends:

general legend

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: Mooring posts (unnamed).

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, workhouses

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 6860 (3), BOL C17:70 Cardiff (4), Cardiff Library [6 copies], CUL Maps.101.90.2, Glamorgan RO D/D Ch 23, D/D Xce 2, LGC Map 5998, LGC Map 5999, LGC Map 6000, LGC Map 6001, London Metropolitan Archives MBW 2608 [1905: Thomas Kell: SE of sheet 2 only]; LGC Map 5554 [1905/88: Glamorgan Archive Service & Cardiff City Council: SE of sheet 2 only]; Cardiff Library [Tracing of northern part of 1:2640: Tudor Printing Works, Cardiff].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, rope walk

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, rails, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Antiquities:

[Shown: details not noted.]

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Cemeteries:

shown

Geodetic notes:

Boundary of 10ft work.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1878

1:2500

1:10,560

1898-9

1:2500

1:10,560