Hampshire-Southampton-1800 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19856

Map Date:

1800

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 31.c.61

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Southampton

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU425115

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 4513

Map title:

'A plan of the county of the town of Southampton survey'd 1800 by John Doswell & Son

Comments on map:

Recorded from photographic version accompanying Edwin Welch, Southampton maps from Elizabethan times, an introduction to 24 facsimiles, City of Southampton, 1964, whence dimensions (29 x 38.5 ins, here 30.2 x 40.3 cm). Top right is a reference to leaseholds adjoining the shore held under the corporation.

Scale:

1:5940

Map-maker:

John Doswell & Son, Romsey [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

74 x 98

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, land-use: Possibly others.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only: Fragmentary.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Blocks only.

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

quays, misc: Platform.

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits, reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

customs

Penal:

gallows, jails/reformatories: [Gallows on common].

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough

Known copies of map:

Southampton RO [original]; BLML Maps 31.c.61, BOL C17:70 Southampton a.1 [maps], G8/C17.52 [text], CUL Maps.aa.63.96.1 [maps], S696.c.96.73 [introduction], Hampshire RO B1876 Shelf 10, RGS 1.A.185, Southampton RO [1964: in Edwin Welch, Southampton maps from Elizabethan times, an introduction to 24 facsimiles, 1550-1945, Southampton Record Series, IX, City of Southampton Library, 1964].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, rope walk

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, public halls, theatres, etc

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [A few rural owners].

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Mile Stones.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Ordnance Survey's

1865-7

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560