Kent-Gravesend-1844 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21536

Map Date:

1844

Repository reference:

Medway Archives [open access]

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Gravesend

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ647741

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 6481

Map title:

'Plan of Gravesend and Milton. 1844.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from p.78 of Sydney Harker, The book of Gravesham, Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1979, from an original of unknown provenance, evidently considerably reduced: scale and dimensions not compensated, and text mostly illegible.

Scale:

1:14,256

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

15 x 11

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

piers

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Medway Archives [open access] [1979: reduced photo in Sydney Harker, The book of Gravesham, Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1979, p.78].

Gardens:

nurseries

Parkland:

botanic gardens, public parks, private parks and ornamental ground, zoological gardens

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Extension of title lettering.

Relief:

shown partially: Prominent hill.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1863

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560