Gloucestershire-Cinderford-1856 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

15056

Map Date:

1856

Repository reference:

Gloucestershire RO DA 40/560 [at Shire Hall]

Historic county:

Gloucestershire

Town name:

Cinderford

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO657140

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 6415

Comments on map:

East Dean rating map, for Westbury upon Severn Guardians. On rollers.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

Francis William Dibbin, Arundel House, Holland St, Kensington, Middlesex [sv, dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

380 x 553

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

general legend: Dwelling houses, outbuildings, churches and chapels (black), woods and plantations, quarries, turnpike roads [difference from ordinary roads not clearly apparent], streams and ponds, broad gauge railways, tramways, township boundaries.

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, boundaries

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

township

Known copies of map:

Gloucestershire RO DA 40/560 [at Shire Hall].

Industry:

metallurgical processing

Railways:

routes, named, misc, industrial tramways/waggonways: Tunnels; rails shown on tramways but not on broad gauge.

Magnetic data:

diagram, value (undated): MV, n.d., 23o30'.

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal, metal ore, quarries/pits: 'Strip and at it' and similar names seem to be those of pits, etc.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1877-8

1:2500

1:10,560