Glamorganshire-Swansea-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

15857

Map Date:

1852

Repository reference:

West Glamorgan RO D/D P 856 and Swansea City Archives

Historic county:

Glamorganshire

Town name:

Swansea

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SS657928

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SS 6692

Map title:

[Top centre, in gothic:] 'Swansea Board of Health 1852. Survey of the Borough of Swansea'.

Comments on map:

Mixed entry based on 5 original sheets in West Glamorgan RO (ex Penrice estate) and complete set of dyeline photocopies in Swansea City Archives (originals seem to be still with borough engineer), which has a typewritten list of abbreviations. Some detail is carried beyond neat lines, to complete buildings, creating mini-overlaps. Surveyed & drawn under the superintendance of S.C. Grant.

Scale:

1:528

Map-maker:

S.C. Grant, C.E. Surveyor to the Board [dir], 'Day & Son. Lithrs to the Queen' [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

104 x 69 [x 22] [size within neat lines 36.10 x 24.00 inches].

Number of parts:

22

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally, house numbers

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, archways, stables/coach houses, steps to buildings: Most buildings are in outline with south-and-east shading (including walls); some public buildings have mapped interiors with black walls; others are cross-hatched, with railway station mostly SW-NE, but booking office NW-SE.

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, misc: Including Lock keeper's Lodge, Harbour Office, Harbour Masters Office, Landings, Warehouses, Store Houses, Dry Docks, Timber Yards, Coal Yards, Iron Ore Yards, Copper Ore Yard, Sailors' Chapel, Cranes (+ o), Locks (with Sluice Racks).

Sanitary and utility information:

fire stations, gas works, lamps, sanitary hazards, misc: Outlet of the old Town Ditch, Outlet of Sewer and Tide-flap, Manhole & Plustock, privvies (large black dots), Office, Well, Lamp, Ruins [very small], Bath, Dung Pits, Coach Ho., Manhole & Plustock; abbreviations: St., RS, B.Ho., D.B., CP, Co.H, G. Lp. (gas lamp?), Old Pp, St, C.Ho.; Engine House assumed to be fire engine.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, police

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries, workhouses, misc: Dead House; interiors shown.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets: Including Sheep Pens, Dung Heap.

Known copies of map:

West Glamorgan RO D/D P 856 [5 original sheets]; Swansea City Archives [complete photo]; LGC Map 4012 [1 sheet]

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, smithing, stone/builders' yards, metallurgical processing, oil/soap etc, furniture/pottery, textiles, timber, abbatoirs, uncertain, misc: Factory, Boiler, Tank, Coke Ovens, Patent Fuel Works, Flint Mill, Smith's Shop, Workshop, Cambrian Pipe Manufactory, Bark Mill, Wheelwright & Smith's Shop, Coach Factory.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, motive power depots, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways, misc: Some rails under roofs; Booking Office; '61.50 on rails' on line in roofed part of station.

River and foreshore features:

misc: Tanks.

Gardens:

shown, market gardens, nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Parkland:

public parks: [What may be public park in the south-east part of the town (latterly part of docks) is shown, unnamed, with what seem to be drives and solid rectangles which might be benches (they are about 11 ft x 3 ft)].

Service and professional:

banks, newspaper offices

Clubs and societies:

learned societies

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Movable bridge with Fenders, Piles, Public Weighing Machine.

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Open Building.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

cow-keeping, pig-keeping, misc: Farm Yard (Cow House, Coach Ho.).

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict industry: Old Coal Yard.

Walls, embankments, etc:

Stone Buttress [? retaining wall].

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, basement levels, spot heights: Spot heights to 0.1 ft, bench marks and basement levels to 0.01 ft (with arrows showing extent of basement levels common to several houses in a terrace), altitude 'on flag'. 'N.B. The levels for this Survey are computed from the Ordnance Datum (being the mean level of the Sea). The Ordnance Bench Mark on the jetty of the Western Pier is 20.18 above the Datum; these figures therefore deducted from any of the levels marked upon the Plan, will give the level at each place above the Pier.'

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1876

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560