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Gloucestershire-Gloucester-1891

CBTM:
21226
Map Date:
9.1891
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 145.b.11(1)
Historic county:
Gloucestershire
Town name:
Gloucester
Map type:
Insurance
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
SO831186
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SO 8318
Map title:
'Insurance plan of Gloucester.'
Comments on map:
Note of population, water supply and fire-fighting equipment on graphic index sheet at 1:7200, which covers a larger area than the detailed plans. Letterpress index to streets and 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc. This is 'Vol 1', surveyed August and September 1890: there is no volume 2. Sheet 1 is at 1:2400, sheet 6 is at 1:960, and 7 covers Sharpness New Docks at 1:960, with a location map and cross-sections at 1:480 of petroleum and other warehouses.
Scale:
1:480
Map-maker:
Charles E. Goad, Civil Engineer, 53 New Broad St, London, E.C. [author].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
53 x 62 [standard sheet size: x 6(+1)].
Number of parts:
7
Colouring:
Buildings, water: Hand-coloured.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished
Water transport infrastructure:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
utilities
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Heights to eaves and of towers, where applicable.
Public buildings:
shown
Welfare and charitable:
shown
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 145.b.11(1) [1891]; Gloucester Library [photos]; Gloucestershire RO GBR L.10/1/8 [rv to 1952].
Industry:
shown
Railways:
routes, goods depots, motive power depots, platforms, rails, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
shown
Service and professional:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
industrial owners: [Occupiers of larger retail and industrial premises].
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
On sheet 3: three cross-sections of groups of warehouses (one group connected to kilns).
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
shown
Retail activity:
shown generally
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1881-2
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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