Hampshire-Bournemouth-1893 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19845

Map Date:

1893

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 32.a.48

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Bournemouth

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX087917

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SZ 0593

Map title:

[Cover:] 'Bright's map of Bournemouth with index', [map:] 'Bright & Son's plan of the Borough of Bournemouth reduced from the Ordnance and other surveys revised and corrected to date with Reference Index to the Roads and principal Houses 1893.'

Comments on map:

Very good quality for a Bacon map. Accompanied by 80-page letterpress index. On p.7: 'This Plan of the Borough of Bournemouth has been prepared, at great cost, to meet the want of a Map large enough to give sufficient detail, but not too large for the use of Visitors who frequently want to consult such a Map out of doors.' To find house Ih8, finf I and h using squaring, and then it is 8 in the square.

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

G.W. Bacon & Co., 127 Strand, London [dr, eng], Bright & Son, The Arcade, Bournemouth [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

108.0 x 69.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

altitude information, boundaries

Colouring:

roads, boundaries, land-use: Parks green; wards various colours.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally: By numbering plots and reference in index

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: But not so very generalised.

Water transport infrastructure:

piers, boat houses: Including YMCA Boat House.

Sanitary and utility information:

electricity works, fire stations, gas works, rubbish destructors, municipal depots, water works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, rifle ranges: [Martello tower].

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

bathing, sports grounds: [Ladies and Gent's Bathing Places and Bathing Machines].

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

county, borough, Parish, Ward

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 32.a.48, Bournemouth Library [2 copies], BOL C17:70 Bournemouth (11), CUL maps.c.63.89.3, Southampton RO [1893]; CUL Maps.c.18.G.272 [1897].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, furniture/pottery

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways: Tramways in brick works.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, Winter Gardens

Parkland:

public parks: With steps and shelters.

Service and professional:

banks: As with building names, these are identified via the index: the numbers are not very easily read on the map.

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

Conservative

Commons:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Reference system:

squaring

Cemeteries:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Stated measuerments:

soundings, spot heights: Soundings in fathoms.

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1869

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560