Hampshire-Southampton-1842 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19859

Map Date:

1842

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 2605 (1)

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Southampton

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU425115

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 4513

Map title:

'Plan of the Town of Southampton. Reduced from an Official Survey. Shewing also the South Western Railway Terminus, Docks, Harbour, and all Local Improvements to the present time.'

Comments on map:

Note in explanation: 'The River Itchen and Suburbs of the Town are added from original Surveys by J.D. Doswell. The Docks by permission of F. Giles Esqre. Civil Engineer to the Southampton Dock Company.'

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

George Doswell, Land Surveyor & Civil Engineer, 35 Bernard St, Southampton [sv, pb], J.D. Doswell, Civil Engineer ['Designed by': the vignettes?], Charles F. Cheffins, Lithographer, Southampton Buildgs, Holborn, London [lith], J. Wyld, Mapseller, Charing Cross East, London [sold by].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

70.7 x 96.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours, boundaries: The copy recorded here is uncoloured, but the explanation provides for the 'Ancient Boundary of the Town' to be red and the railway blue.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, piers, quays, wharfs, misc: Buoys [pictorial].

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Churches named in gothic.

Public buildings:

customs, misc: Ordnance Map Office.

Defence and military:

town gates

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, infirmaries, workhouses

Recreation and sports venues:

bathing, sports grounds: [Bathing Machines].

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 2605(1), BOL (E)C17:70 Southampton (2), CUL Maps.63.84.1, Southampton RO; 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, engineering, stone/builders' yards, lime/cement, ship yards, rope walk, timber, misc: Carriage Manufy.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, goods depots, motive power depots, named, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways, misc: Coke Ovens.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

market gardens

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, public halls

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Gods house [in gothic].

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Some large owners in unbuilt-up areas].

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: Royal Pier; bottom right: Bar Gate.

Borders:

keyboard type

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Symbolic elements:

Figure of Justice: as north pointer tip.

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Weigh Bridge.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [In compass boss].

Ferries:

floating bridge: Pictorial.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Cemeteries:

shown

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Milestones.

Dedicee of map:

Worshipful the Mayor and Corporation.

Stated measuerments:

other: Acreage and depth of docks.

Ordnance Survey's

1865-7

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560