Hampshire-Aldershot-1855 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19839

Map Date:

1855

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 2593 (6)

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Aldershot, Farnborough

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU865505

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 8751

Map title:

'Rough plan of Aldershot Common and the temporary barracks'.

Comments on map:

No statement of derivation: might conceivably be based on enlargement from Ordnance Surveyors Drawing, or on tithe maps, or a combination of the two. Includes north part of Farnham.

Scale:

1:15,840

Map-maker:

Ordnance Map Office, Southampton [author, pr].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

44.2 x 33.2 [x 4].

Number of parts:

4

Legends:

altitude information

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

barracks

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML 2593(6), BOL C17:32(21), RGS Eng & Wales S.247.

Industry:

lime/cement

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations, misc: Notes of 'Guns per hour' at stations.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

'Caesar's Camp' and 'Castle' at Farnham both in gothic.

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

slopes shown

Commons:

shown

Stated measuerments:

spot heights, other: Dimensions (?) of bridges given, e.g. '13 x 7': the first figure seems to refer to the width. Altitudes above sea level.

Ordnance Survey's

1856

1:2500

1:10,560

1870

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1871

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-5

1:2500

1:10,560