Hampshire-Bournemouth-1861 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21127

Map Date:

? 1861

Repository reference:

Bournemouth Library, local studies section

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Bournemouth

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SZ087917

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SZ 0593

Map title:

'A new map of Bournemouth & its environs carefully prepared with reference to the Ordnance & Hydrographical Surveys the private surveys of the different estates & all available data and by actual survey by Philip Brannon.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photographic copy of uncertain provenance, quite possibly reduced, and possibly engraved. Scales of yards, furlongs and chains. Undated, does not show railway, but does show the pier, so presumably pre-1862.

Scale:

1:17,424

Map-maker:

Philip Brannon [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

57 x 44

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

general legend: Public roads in good repair, Public roads or carriage tracks, ditto ditto rough, Footpath, Private roads and paths, proposed roads and building plans, Buildings erected, Hilns Potteries & Brick Works [conical], Flagstaff for signals [pictorial], Pine planations, Plantations of deciduous trees etc, Open heath, Hills, Gravel & clay pits, Cliffs, Rocks, Do. below low water, sand Hills, Sand [illegible: foreshore?], Hedge rows & cultivated fields.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

piers

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

coastguard, rifle ranges

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

misc: Archery ground.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Bournemouth Library, local studies section [photo].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, furniture/pottery, misc: Kilns: conical.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Leisure and entertainment:

libraries/newsrooms

Miscellaneous:

Notes of discrepancies between where the real county boundary and that according to the Ordnance Survey reach the shore.

Parkland:

public parks

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous physical features:

Detailed naming of physical features.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Stated measuerments:

other: Lengths of pier and rifle range.

Ordnance Survey's

1869

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560