Gloucestershire-Stroud-1825 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

15046

Map Date:

1825

Repository reference:

Gloucestershire RO Photocopy 333

Historic county:

Gloucestershire

Town name:

Stroud

Map type:

boundaries

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SO851052

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 8505

Comments on map:

Map to show limits of Town of Stroud pursuant to its Paving, lighting watching, cleansing, regulating and improving Act of 1825. Dimensions and scale from Gloucestershire RO cards, which says 30 x 36 inches and about 16-inch (5-chain, 1:3960).

Scale:

1:3960*

Map-maker:

S. Baker, Civil Engineer and Surveyor [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

77 x 92

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Named Well.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Gloucestershire RO Photocopy 333.

Miscellaneous:

Boundary is partly at a radius of ?2000 yards from Stroud church, and fields cut through are numbered, discontinously, evidently from an earlier survey; the other fields are not.

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

some slopes shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1881-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560