Hampshire-Lymington-1841
CBTM:
23536
Map Date:
1841
Repository reference:
Post Office Archive POST 21/66
Historic county:
Hampshire
Town name:
Lymington
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SZ 323956
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
23536
Map title:
'Plan of the Town of Lymington Made by John Wood. 1841.'
Comments on map:
Stated to be ‘sc’, i.e. engraved, but tree symbols are more characteristic of good litho. Reference has fairs, market day (Sat), list of Post Miles (including some by steam boat).
Scale:
1:1584
Map-maker:
John Wood, Surveyor, 34 Upper Paul St, Exeter [sv], Turner & Co sc Edinr. [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
74.3/75.0 x 57.5/60.2 [extrusion for ‘Gas Work’
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
misc: Town Slip
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, misc: ‘Engine House’ [fire engine?]
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
customs, Parliament, town hall/administrative: ‘Stocks’.
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough: inferred.
Known copies of map:
Post Office Archive POST 21/66
Industry:
food/drink, ship yards
Miscellaneous:
‘Proposed Suspension Bridge’: a continuation east of the High St.
Parkland:
misc
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
hotels or principal inns only, some inns: Nagshead Inn & Posting House emphasised.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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