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Herefordshire-Hereford-1853

CBTM:
21039
Map Date:
11.1853
Repository reference:
Hereford Record Office BG 11/14/17 Green O/U 122
Historic county:
Herefordshire
Town name:
Hereford
Map type:
Utility
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO510040
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SO 5140
Map title:
'Hereford Improvements
Comments on map:
Seven sheets of 1:2376 mapping, 1:21,120 index (see Exeter 21032), title, and 9 sheets of sections. Strictly a 'deposited plan', but covers the whole city, so included as a marginal case.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
T. Curley, Engineer [author], Standidge & Co., Litho, Old Jewry [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
82 x 64 [x 7]
Number of parts:
7
Legends:
boundaries, sanitation: Parish boundaries, limits of deviation, centre line of sewers, etc. Datum is at Post Office, as for the general map of 1858 [Exeter 21030], but altitudes only appear on the vertical sections.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences, partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Outlying ones fairly detailed.
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, water mains, sewers: [Proposed water mains, sewers and reservoir].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
infirmaries, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
markets: [Proposed cattle market].
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
Hereford RO BG 11/14/17=Green=O/U 122 [second copy at ibid /18], Hereford RO BG 11/14/21 O/U 122; Hereford Library 912.422, 'rolled by map case'.
Industry:
engineering, food/drink, uncertain: Steam Mill.
Railways:
routes, named
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa
Parkland:
public parks: [Castle Green].
Waterbodies:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown: [Proposed].
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete
Ordnance Survey's
1884-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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