Kent-Canterbury-1860 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20970

Map Date:

1860

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3085 (3)

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, shewing the site and the approaches to the Show Yard and Trail Grounds for the Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society 1860.'

Comments on map:

A close copy of the 1843 map [Exeter 20969], still with scale misgraduated; noted as reduced from a survey by Collard. No new building apparent.

Scale:

1:9504

Map-maker:

T.W. Collard [sv], Thomas Ashenden, Canterbury [lith, pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

34.7 x 27.5

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(3).

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Gardens:

nurseries: Including Exotic Nursery.

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. Show Yard, with Machinery in motion, Implement Sheds, Stock Sheds, and temporary goods and passenger stations.

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560