Gloucestershire-Gloucester-1814 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21567

Map Date:

? 1814

Repository reference:

Gloucestershire RO [open access]

Historic county:

Gloucestershire

Town name:

Gloucester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO831186

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 8318

Map title:

'Gloucester'.

Comments on map:

This example faces title page in Thomas Rudge, The history and antiquities of Gloucester, Gloucester: Hough & Pace, n.d. [noted as after 1814]. Looks like a not-very-subtle imitation of Roper/Cole [Exeter 18404].

Scale:

1:8448

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

17.7 x 23.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

customs

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: City.

Known copies of map:

Gloucestershire RO (open access), Gloucester Library B.413/2802.

Industry:

glass

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Monastic remains.

Waterbodies:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

ecclesiastical, municipal: [See, and ancient and present arms of city].

Ordnance Survey's

1881-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560