Glamorganshire-Oystermouth-1876 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

15858

Map Date:

1876

Repository reference:

Swansea City Archives MP/LBH/Oystermouth Drainage

Historic county:

Glamorganshire

Town name:

Oystermouth

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SS615880

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SS 6692

Comments on map:

'Mumbles, Newton & Norton Villages': Scale includes 1 ft graduations. Some pencil additions of later development. Numbered to 22, with an 'A' sheet: so a couple may be missing.

Scale:

1:528

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

100 x 66 [x 20], + 99 x 34 [sheet 16A] + 99 x 52 [sheet 18] [basic sheet size 37.60 x 24.50 inches].

Number of parts:

22

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, bay windows, stables/coach houses, steps to buildings: [Bay windows treated as outbuildings, apparently].

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: Life-Boat House, Slip, Packet Landing Stage, Sail Loft.

Sanitary and utility information:

sewers, misc: Wells, Pumps, . privvies, Cess Pools [not many], circles (= manholes).

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Defence and military:

coastguard, castles/forts/batteries

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

Swansea City Archives MP/LBH/Oystermouth Drainage.

Industry:

smithing, lime/cement, textiles

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified, misc: [High Water Mark of Spring Tides, Low Water Mark Medium Tides]; Oyster Perches.

Gardens:

market gardens

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, ice-skating

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Monuments:

Monuments: [Memorial Monument].

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict industry, rubbish tips: Old Limekiln.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Face of Rock.

Stated measuerments:

spot heights: To 0.01 ft; no datum information or basement levels.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1877

1:2500

1:10,560

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560