Isle of Wight-Ventnor-1848 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23026

Map Date:

? 1848

Repository reference:

Isle of Wight Record Office MP/B/118

Historic county:

Isle of Wight

Town name:

Ventnor

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SZ565775

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SZ 5782

Map title:

'Plan of Ventnor Isle of Wight.'

Comments on map:

Dated c.1840 in Isle of Wight Record Office card index, but paper has J. Whatman 1847 watermark. Scale-bar is misgraduated in links rather than in chains.

Scale:

1:2376

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

80.7 x 59.3

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, boundaries, land-use

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Unnamed: other emphasised buildings may be chapels.

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

uncertain: Presumably limit of Ventnor.

Known copies of map:

Isle of Wight RO MP/B/118.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

cliffs

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1862

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560