Hertfordshire-Hitchin-1844 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

03488

Map Date:

1844

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/15/53

Historic county:

Hertfordshire

Town name:

Hitchin

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL184294

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 2227

Comments on map:

Rural part is at 1:4752.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

J. Bailey Denton, Grays Inn, London [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Number of parts:

5

Road names:

shown

Building names:

shown

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial), (unspecified type)

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/15/53 [original]; Hertford RO 58875 [copy in volume].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, food/drink

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Priory.

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

some slopes shown

Commons:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1878-9

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560