Kent-Ashford-1853
CBTM:
21490
Map Date:
1853
Repository reference:
Centre for Kentish Studies U.1772.P.107
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Ashford
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TR010427
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TR 0445
Map title:
'Plan of the town of Ashford in the county of Kent. Surveyed by T. Thurston, Ashford. 1853.'
Comments on map:
Purpose unclear: might be sanitary.
Scale:
1:1200
Map-maker:
T. Thurston, Ashford [sv], Day & Son, Lithrs to the Queen [lith].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
103 x 71
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water: Hand-coloured.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, steps to buildings
Mills:
windmills, watermills
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, lamps, misc: Pump [in main street]; lampposts shown pictorially.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Cross-hatched: parish church has reversed-out cross.
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets: [Including Cattle Market with pens by railway].
Known copies of map:
Centre for Kentish Studies U.1772.P.107 [original]; Centre for Kentish Studies 18/129 [photo of original in Ashford Library].
Railways:
routes, named, rails, passenger stations: Track layouts not complete, e.g. no turnouts from running to platform lines.
Gardens:
shown
Waterbodies:
shown
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Sidewalks, bridge abutments, [pictorial] gates across roads.
Arms and heraldry:
aldermen
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1870-1
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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