Glamorganshire-Cardiff-1896
CBTM:
23167
Map Date:
1896
Repository reference:
Glamorgan RO D/D Xjw
Historic county:
Glamorganshire
Town name:
Llandaff, Cardiff
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST184764
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 1875
Map title:
'Cardiff, in the year of the Exhibition, 1896.'
Comments on map:
Birds-eye view rather than scale map. Advertisements on back [obscured by mounting]: advertises Trapnell & Gane, 'The Artistic and Inexpensive House Furnishers' at bottom.
Scale:
1:12,672
Map-maker:
Western Mail, Limited, Cardiff [? pr, pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
59.7 x 46.3
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, roads, water, land-use: 'Naturalistic' colouring.
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised: 'Ordinary' buildings sepia, public ones black.
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, misc: Timber Ponds, cranes, Hamadrunn Hospital Ship; also pictorial shipping.
Sanitary and utility information:
electricity works
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks
Welfare and charitable:
infirmaries, workhouses, misc: Havannah Industrial Ship [pictorial].
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Glamorgan RO D/D Xjw.
Industry:
metallurgical processing, misc: Western Mail Printing Works.
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms
Parkland:
public parks
Service and professional:
newspaper offices
Antiquities:
Castle.
Waterbodies:
shown
Borders:
decorative
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Cemeteries:
shown
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
hotels or principal inns only
Other land-uses & land-cover:
misc: Exhibition [on Cathays Park].
Ordnance Survey's
1878
1:2500
1:10,560
1898-9
1:2500
1:10,560
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