Glamorganshire-Merthyr Tydfil-1836
CBTM:
23163
Map Date:
1836
Repository reference:
Glamorgan RO D/D Xsy, Merthyr Tydfil Library reference section
Historic county:
Glamorganshire
Town name:
Merthyr Tydfil
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO050650
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 0108
Map title:
'Plan of Merthyr Tydfil from actual survey 1836'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from dyeline of transcript which omits author, etc, details, though does retain notes of post miles and population, at Glamorgan RO, and a fragile tracing, formerly in the posession of Mr Biddle, who was town clerk in 1905, at Merthyr Library.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
John Wood [sv], Leith & Smith Edinburgh [? lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
54 x 71
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences, important buildings only
Buildings:
shown
Canals:
shown
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Welfare and charitable:
misc: Proposed site of Workhouse.
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Glamorgan RO D/DX 941/1 [evident original: missing 11:10:05]; LGC Map 6019 [much reduced photo]; Glamorgan RO D/D Xsy [dyeline of transcript]; Glamorgan RO D/D X 392/3 [late C20 with additions].
Industry:
metallurgical processing
Railways:
industrial tramways/waggonways
Magnetic data:
diagram
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [Not in most built-up part].
Waterbodies:
shown
Extractive activity:
coal
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
relict extraction, spoil heaps: Cinder & Mine Tips.
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown: [In usual detail].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1874
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897-8
1:2500
1:10,560
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