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Kent-Folkestone-1851

CBTM:
21511
Map Date:
20.2.1851
Repository reference:
East Kent Archives FO/PC 12/1
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Folkestone
Map type:
Rating
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TR229359
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TR 1937
Map title:
'Plan of land within the liberty of the town of Folkestone Kent 1851.' [Below title:] 'This plan was copied from an old plan and the Tithe Survey in the possession of the Authorities of the Town. Feby. 20th. 1851 by Th. H. Cooper Canterbury.'
Comments on map:
Most of town not mapped in detail: very little text apart from (? tithe) area numbers. Stamped by Poor Law Board 10 Aug 1852, as is the 1:792 plan [Exeter 21514], which supplies the urban cover wanting here: rating seems likely, but I cannot find any reference to rate books, etc, of the period in the surviving Folkestone borough archives.
Scale:
1:2376*
Map-maker:
Th. H. Cooper, Canterbury [dr].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
218 x 76
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: [Three martello towers].
Public/administrative boundaries:
liberty
Known copies of map:
East Kent Archives FO/PC 12/1.
Railways:
routes, earthworks, rails, passenger stations: Track layouts seem incomplete.
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
cliffs
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete
Ordnance Survey's
1871
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896-7
1:2500
1:10,560
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