Glamorganshire-Swansea-1842 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

11523

Map Date:

? 1842

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/51/122

Historic county:

Glamorganshire

Town name:

Swansea

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SS657928

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SS 6692

Comments on map:

Swansea St Mary tithe map: rural part is at 1:6336, in manuscript.

Scale:

1:1584

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

132 x 97 [town part; rural part 99 x 145].

Number of parts:

2

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown, wharf

Water transport infrastructure:

jetties, quays, misc: Land for Harbour Improvements.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/51/122, West Glamorgan RO P/123/18.

Industry:

ship yards, furniture/pottery, timber, abbatoirs, misc: Flint Mill, Coal Yards.

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways: Oystermouth Tramroad.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, museums

Antiquities:

Castle, Postern.

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

ballast hills

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1876

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560