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Kent-Canterbury-1843

CBTM:
20969
Map Date:
1843
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 3085 (2)
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Canterbury
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TR151579
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TR 1562
Map title:
'Plan of the city of Canterbury and its vicinity, from a recent survey. By T.W. Collard, Surveyor. To accompany Felix Summerly's Handbook of Canterbury.'
Comments on map:
Scale misgraduated, whereby 660 feet are 0.25 mile: in fact the furlong graduations are correct.
Scale:
1:9504
Map-maker:
T.W. Collard, Surveyor [sv], J.R. Jobbins [dr, lith], H. Ward, Canterbury, & G. Bell, Fleet St [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
32.5 x 25.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences, partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Sanitary and utility information:
water works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 3085(2) [1843]; Canterbury Library [in Simon Pratt, Maps of Canterbury c.1165 to c.1850, Canterbury Archaeological trust, June 1995, revised January 1997].
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Gardens:
nurseries
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, museums
Parkland:
public parks, private parks and ornamental ground
Antiquities:
Monastic remains.
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
learned societies
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Arms and heraldry:
ecclesiastical, municipal: [Dean & Chapter, Archbishop, St Augustine's Monastry].
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
hotels or principal inns only
Other land-uses & land-cover:
misc: Dungil Hill: hachured with pictorial upright object on top: odd.
Ordnance Survey's
1871-2
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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