Gloucestershire-Gloucester-1891 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21595

Map Date:

1891

Repository reference:

Gloucester Library, local studies

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:

'Map of Gloucester 1891'.

Comments on map:

This seems to be a straightforward derivative from Ordnance Survey, complete with hedgerow trees, but takes over some of the idiosyncracies of naming, or lack of it, from the 1870 version [Exeter 21594].

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

J.P. Moore, Archt, 9 Berkeley St, Gloucester [author], Bemrose & Sons, Photo-litho, Derby & London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

41 x 45

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, mental, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: City.

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.d.19.G.46, Gloucester Library, local studies.

Industry:

engineering, food/drink, oil/soap etc, timber, misc: Marbled slate.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations

Gardens:

nurseries

Parkland:

public parks

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners

Cemeteries:

shown

Street tramways:

depots

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Ordnance Survey's

1881-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560