Gloucestershire-Bristol-1818
CBTM:
21564
Map Date:
[1818]
Repository reference:
Gloucestershire RO [open access]
Historic county:
Gloucestershire
Town name:
Clifton, Bristol
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST585730
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 5773
Map title:
'Plan of Bristol.'
Comments on map:
Facing title of John Evans, The picture of Bristol, second edition, Bristol: Sheppard, etc, 1818.
Scale:
1:25,344*
Map-maker:
W. Sheppard, opposite the Exchange, Bristol [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
19.0 x 11.5 [map: 19.0 x 16.0 overall].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, internal revenue
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
misc.: Guard House.
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, blind, infirmaries, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc: Presumably city.
Known copies of map:
Gloucestershire RO Photocopy 15C [18918?: photocopy]; Bristol Library B.23553 [1828]; Bristol Library B.4877, B.8876, B.10439 [uncertain status].
Industry:
distilling, rope walk
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, riding schools, public halls, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms
Antiquities:
Roman Camp.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: With bunches of grapes.
Clubs and societies:
trade and livery company halls
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Symbolic elements:
Drawing pen, pencil, dividers and ribbon: above scale.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Ferries:
ferry
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1879-82
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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