Great Yarmouth-1890 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22580

Map Date:

? 1890

Repository reference:

Norwich Library Local Studies [maps] 3.50

Town name:

Great Yarmouth, Gorleston

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG523080

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 5207

Map title:

'The panoramic map of Great Yarmouth and neighbourhood

Comments on map:

Built-up part is to scale: perspective effect in background. Undated: Norwich Library list says c.1890.

Scale:

1:5280*

Map-maker:

Jarrold & Sons, 132 King Street, Great Yarmouth [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

104 x 47.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water, land-use, general highlighting of district: Public open spaces green, elsewhere either light-green or brown-kharki.

Road names:

generally: Including all the rows, but omitted in Cobholm Island.

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised: Almost all buildings shown by not-very-subtle line drawings: a few are unnamed.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial): Including 'High Mill'.

Water transport infrastructure:

jetties, piers, quays, wharfs

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, coastguard, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, drill halls

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, sailors, misc: Workhouse shown, and is one of the largest buildings, but is unnamed.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses, recreation grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Norwich Library 3.50.

Industry:

rope walk, timber: [Ropery named only; timber yard has vague pictorial stacks of timber].

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations: East Suffolk line only has telegraph poles.

Leisure and entertainment:

aquariums, public halls, misc: Switch Back Railway [pictorial].

Antiquities:

Old town wall with pictorial towers.

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners: [Jarrold's; Jewson's Timber Yard].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Skinny-scroll effect.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Monuments:

Monuments: [Nelson's Monument].

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in sea and at quaysides; pictorial trains on railways, and bathing machines on beach (no bathers).

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown: With railings.

Retail activity:

publisher of map: [Jarrolds: not pictorial].

Street tramways:

routes shown, termini

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Ordnance Survey's

1882-3

1:2500

1:10,560

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560