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Hertfordshire-Ware-1851

CBTM:
14174
Map Date:
1851
Repository reference:
Herts RO F/El P1
Historic county:
Hertfordshire
Town name:
Ware
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL358144
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 3412
Comments on map:
1:5280 index to larger sheets; 2 x 1:2640, 1 now missing; 11 x 1:528, all signed by Capt Henry James, 15 May 1851. Footnotes as for Hitchin [Exeter 1417] (as in 1:5280 index). Herts RO also has papers and correspondence re this map, of 1850-65, at LBH 5/3/141.
Scale:
1:528
Map-maker:
Ordnance Survey [sv, dr].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
97 x 66 [x 13-14].
Number of parts:
14
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use, utilities, other: Paved areas (pale grey).
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
shown, glazed areas
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
wharfs, boat houses
Sanitary and utility information:
drains, gas works, lamps, sanitary hazards, water works: Draw Well, Pumps, Trough, Tank, privvies (usual); abbreviations used: B.H., L.P. (stalk type), L., W.H., R.S., Cn, S.G., D.B., ST, C.H., V.; red lines are presumably sanitary.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Hertford RO F/EI P1.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink, smithing, textiles, timber, abbatoirs, misc: Crane, Engine House, Wash Mills (in brickyards), Coach Factory.
Railways:
routes, earthworks, named, rails, passenger stations, misc: Warehouse (no rails inside).
Gardens:
shown: With Grottos [sic; apparently a gaggle or whatever the collective term for multiple grottoes is].
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Waterbodies:
shown
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Posts, Basin, Pile of Stones.
Cemeteries:
shown
Geodetic notes:
'The marginal lines are perpendiculars and parallels to the Meridian of Ware Union Workhouse'.
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Milestones with distances.
Garden and park buildings:
summer houses, misc: Seat, Beehive.
Stated measuerments:
bench marks, basement levels, spot heights
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1877-8
1:528
1:2500
1:10,560
1897
1:2500
1:10,560
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