Glamorganshire-Cardiff-1888
CBTM:
21219
Map Date:
3.1888
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 145.b.10(5)
Historic county:
Glamorganshire
Town name:
Cardiff
Map type:
Insurance
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
ST184764
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 1875
Map title:
'Insurance plan of Cardiff.'
Comments on map:
Note of population, water supply and fire-fighting equipment on graphic index sheet at 1:4800, which covers a larger area than the detailed plans. Letterpress index to streets and 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc. Surveyed November and December 1887.
Scale:
1:480
Map-maker:
Charles E. Goad, Civil Engineer, 53 New Broad St, London, E.C. [author].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
53 x 62 [standard sheet size: x 7].
Number of parts:
7
Legends:
general legend
Colouring:
Buildings, water: Hand-coloured.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished
Water transport infrastructure:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
utilities
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Heights to eaves and of towers, where applicable.
Public buildings:
shown
Welfare and charitable:
shown
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 145.b.10(5) [1888]; Glamorgan RO GB 214 D/D X 995 [1888-1961].
Industry:
shown
Railways:
routes, goods depots, motive power depots, platforms, rails, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
shown
Service and professional:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
industrial owners: [Occupiers of larger retail and industrial premises].
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
shown
Retail activity:
shown generally
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1878
1:2500
1:10,560
1898-9
1:2500
1:10,560
1872
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897-8
1:2500
1:10,560
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