Great Yarmouth-1824 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22564

Map Date:

1824

Repository reference:

Norfolk RO Y/PH 1167

Town name:

Great Yarmouth, Gorleston

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG523080

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 5207

Map title:

'Plan of the Haven and Pier and of Great Yarmouth.'

Comments on map:

Note below title says is copied from a plan on a larger scale made for the Corporation by H. Fulton in 1818.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

John Preston, Yarmouth [dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

110.5 x 35.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, decorative: Grey.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

quays, misc: Lookout.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Norfolk RO Y/PH 1167.

Industry:

uncertain: Factory.

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Outside built-up parts].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: St Nicholas, from north-west; along bottom: longitudinal and transverse (1:600) sections of river.

Monuments:

Monuments: [Nelson].

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [Bottom right].

Stated measuerments:

soundings: In river.

Ordnance Survey's

1882-3

1:2500

1:10,560

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560