Kent-Dover-1905 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21221

Map Date:

3.1905

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 145.b.7

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Dover

Map type:

Insurance

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TR318416

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 3247

Map title:

'Insurance plan of Dover.'

Comments on map:

Note of population, water supply and fire-fighting equipment on graphic index sheet at 1:3600, which covers a larger area than the detailed plans. Letterpress index to streets and 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc. The index sheet seems to have been produced originally in November 1899, but has a pasted slip of March 1905, when the town was surveyed.

Scale:

1:480

Map-maker:

Charles E. Goad, Civil Engineer, 53 New Broad St, London, E.C. [author].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

53 x 62 [standard sheet size: x 8].

Number of parts:

8

Colouring:

Buildings, water: Hand-coloured.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Water transport infrastructure:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

utilities

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Heights to eaves and of towers, where applicable.

Public buildings:

shown

Welfare and charitable:

shown

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps.145.B.10(7).

Industry:

shown

Railways:

routes, goods depots, motive power depots, platforms, rails, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

shown

Service and professional:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners: [Occupiers of larger retail and industrial premises].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

shown

Retail activity:

shown generally

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1858-9

1:500

1871

1:2500

1:10,560

1881-4

1:500

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560