Hampshire-Southampton-1835 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19858

Map Date:

1835

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 31.c.61 [Southampton RO SC/AW]

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Southampton

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU425115

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 4513

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 (24.5 x 36 ins, here 30.5 x 45.2). Map has note, bottom left, that it belongs to the Commissioners of Southampton Water Works.

Scale:

1:5940

Map-maker:

G. Doswell, Southampton [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

62 x 92

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

piers, quays

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

customs

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish

Known copies of map:

Southampton RO SC/AW [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:

ship yards, rope walk

Railways:

projected or otherwise unbuilt lines

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

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