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Glamorganshire-Merthyr Tydfil-1852

CBTM:
14883
Map Date:
27.03.1852
Repository reference:
Glamorgan Record Office B/M, Merthyr Tydfil Library
Historic county:
Glamorganshire
Town name:
Merthyr Tydfil, Dowlais
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO050060
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SO 0108
Map title:
[Top left on 1:528 sheets:] 'Town of Merthyr Tydfil'.
Comments on map:
Original entry made on 24.06.1994 at Glamorgan RO from original of 1:2640: entry revised at Merthyr Tydfil Library, reference section, on 13:10:05, using colour-copy version at about 60% of a 1:528 original supposed to be at Glamorgan Record Office. [1:528:] Bottom centre: 'Surveyed in 1851 by the Ordnance Survey Department in accordance with the provisions of the Public Health Act'. Some discreet later additions in outline, e.g. SE part of sheet 27, NE part of Sheet 29. Layout: -,-,-,-,-,1,2/-,-,-,-,-,3,4,5/-,-,-,-,6,7,8,9/-,-,-,-,10,11,12,13,14/15,16,17,18,19,20/21,22,23,24,25/-,-,26,27/-,-,28,29/-,-,-30,31/-,-,-,32,33/-,-,-,-,34,35/-,-,-,-,36,37/-,-,-,-,-,38,39/-,-,-,-,-,40,41/-,-,-,-,,-,-,42: St Tydfil's Church is approx centre of sheet 30. [1:2640:] Made for the local board of health; signed by Captain Andrew Beatty, R.E. In two combined 'large' sheets, as is confirmed by the accompanying index diagram. Usual meridian note. (1:528 is very battered and very brown; a few bits missing.) The index sheet has sheetlines only: no skeletal detail at all.
Scale:
1:528
Map-maker:
Ordnance Survey [sv, dr].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
91.5 x 61.0 [x 42: 1:528, within neat line], 153 x 153, 149 x 149 [1:2640: combined], 69 x 97 [index and legend].
Number of parts:
45
Legends:
general legend: Bn, Barn; SH, Summer House; BrH, Brew House; PH, Public House; BH, Beer House; CH, Coach House; CoH, Cow House; WH, Wash House; St, Stable; SG, Sewer Grate; FP, Fire Plug; WP, Water Plug; LP, Lamp Post; L, Lamp; o Privy; Py, Piggery; DB, Dust Bin; P, Pump; GP, Gas Plug; S, Sink; CP, Cess Pool; ClH, Coal House; CB, Coal Bin; W, Well; T, Trough; B, Boiler; Cn, Cistern; DP, Dung Pit; BM, Bench Mark. Brick or stone houses, carnine; archways or covered passages, X; wooden houses, grey; sheds, ditto with black pecking; Stone Paving or Flagging, light grey; Brick Paving, orangy; Macadam or Ballast, yellow; Conservatory Green House or Hot House, cross-hatched black; Antiquities written thus, Castle [in gothic]; Trigonometrical point.
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
masonry distinguished, archways, stables/coach houses, glazed areas, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings: Glasshouses are cross-hatched black on carmine; pecked red 'X' for archways.
Canals:
shown, basins/docks, wharf
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, lamps, reservoirs, sanitary hazards, misc: Wells. Abbreviations: BrH [Brew House]; CH [Coach House]; CoH [Cow House]; WH [Wash House]; St [Stable]; SG [Sewer Grate]; FP [Fire Plug]; WP [Water Plug]; LP [Lamp Post]; L [Lamp]; o [Privy]; Py [Piggery]; DB [Dust Bin]; P [Pump]; GP [Gas Plug]; S [Sink]; CP [Cess Pool]; ClH [Coal House]; CB [Coal Bin]; W [Well]; T [Trough]; B [Boiler]; Cn [Cistern]; DP [Dung Pit]. Pipelines of some sort on both 1:528 and 1:2640: the red ones on 1:528 look like later additions [sewers?].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: With 'sittings': no interiors.
Public buildings:
police
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Glamorgan Record Office B/M [1:2640: original]; Merthyr Tydfil Library [1:528: photocopy].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, lime/cement, metallurgical processing, timber, misc: Coal Yard, Coke Yard, Mortar Mill. Usual detailed 'appropriations' of larger industrial premises on 1:528. Some named stables, presumably in association with works.
Railways:
routes, earthworks, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways, misc: Warehouse, Hay Stores. Standard and narrow gauge lines clearly apparent.
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Tydfil Well.
Waterbodies:
shown, fish ponds
Extractive activity:
coal, metal ore, quarries/pits: Also Air Shafts.
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
cow-keeping, pounds/pinfolds: [Only on 1:528].
Map material:
parchment
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
relict extraction, spoil heaps: Old Gravel Pit, Old Quarries, Cinder Tips, Old Pit; other heaps apparent from tinting on 1:528.
Geodetic notes:
[1:2640:] Boundary of the Work shown on the Ten Feet Plan.
Miscellaneous street furniture:
[1:528:] mile post with distances.
Walls, embankments, etc:
Hedges [only on 1:528:].
Other land-uses & land-cover:
heath/uncultivated, misc: Farm Yard [only on 1:528].
Stated measuerments:
bench marks, basement levels, spot heights, other: Surface of Water January 1852; altitudes above mean sea level to 0.1 ft. Including basement heights.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1872-3
1:2500
1:10,560
1897
1:2500
1:10,560
1874
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897-8
1:2500
1:10,560
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