Kent-Chatham-1882 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21071

Map Date:

[1882]

Repository reference:

BL 10347.bb.9

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Chatham, Rochester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ756678

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 7569

Map title:

'Map of Chatham, Rochester and district.'

Comments on map:

Facing title-page of Tourists' guide to Rochester, Chatham, and neighbourhood, Chatham & Rochester: W. & J. Mackay, 1882. Map seems to be a straightforward transcription of Ordnance Survey, including acreages of St Nicholas and Cathedral Precincts, but with 'security' features added.

Scale:

1:10,560

Map-maker:

Bacon's Geogl Estabt. London [dr, eng], W. & J. Mackay [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

49.5 x 41.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

piers, naval dockyards, wharfs

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, town walls: Numerous forts and other features omitted from Ordnance Survey sales editions, and also features such as Officers Quarters Bakery, and capacity of cranes in Dockyard Extension.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, workhouses, misc: Poor Travellers Ho.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges

Woodland:

shown: [Ordnance Plantation only].

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough

Known copies of map:

In book: BL 10347.bb.9(9), Medway Archives MP/P/2/3 [1882: in Tourists' guide to Rochester, Chatham, and neighbourhood, Chatham & Rochester, W. & J. Mackay, 1882]. In atlases: BLML Maps 11.c.30 [1883: 49.2 x 32.2, 1:10,560, in George W. Bacon (ed), New large scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles, London: Bacon, n.d.]; RGS 7.E.17 [1884, Pl 68 in George W. Bacon (ed), New large scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles]; BLML Maps 37.e.31, BOL C15 c.1, National Archives of Scotland [West Register House, open access] [1885: 49.2 x 32.2, 1:10,560, Pl.68 in George W. Bacon (ed), New large scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles, London: Bacon, n.d.]; BLML Maps 19.c.2, BOL C15 c.3 [1889: 30.2 x 20.2, about 1:16,000, Pl.69 in George W. Bacon (ed), New large scale atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey, London: Bacon, n.d.]; BLML Maps 33.c.2 [1891: 30.2 x 20.2, about 1:16,000, in G.W. Bacon (ed), New large scale atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey, London: Bacon, 1891]; BLML Maps 33.b.32 [1895: 49.2 x 32.2, 1:10,560, in G.W. Bacon (ed), Commercial and library atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey, London: Bacon, 1895]. In directory: BL PP.2505.ye/61 [1890: in Kelly's Directory of Rochester, Strood & Chatham (map 1:10,560) [1890-2, 1894-1900+].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, food/drink, lime/cement, ship yards, oil/soap etc

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, rails, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Service and professional:

newspaper offices

Antiquities:

Castle ruins.

Clubs and societies:

working mens

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Cemeteries:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only, out-of-town inns only

Ordnance Survey's

1861-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560

1861-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1885

1:500

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560