Hertfordshire-St Albans-1823 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19356

Map Date:

1.7.1823

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

Hertfordshire

Town name:

St Albans

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL144071

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 1506

Map title:

'Plan of the town of St Alban, Herts, 1822.' [sic].

Comments on map:

In Robert Clutterbuck, The history and antiquities of the county of Hertford, London: Nichols, I (1815), f.p. 54: the volume also has a map of Verulam.

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

T. Godman, Surveyor, St Albans [? sv], E.Turrell [eng], Nichols & Son, London [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

35.6 x 24.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories: [Includes 'Liberty Gaol & Bridewell'].

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

BL rr.R.2062.f, Hertford RO MM 94, TNA [PRO] Library [original]; Hertford RO MM 24 [3/PC1/5].

Industry:

textiles

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

'The Buildings': three sides of quadrangle, on north-east side of town.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1877-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560