Kent-Greenwich-1838 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18215

Map Date:

? 1838

Repository reference:

Greenwich Local Studies Library [unnumbered]

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Greenwich

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ389774

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 4077

Map title:

'Parish of Greenwich in the County of Kent surveyed in accordance with the directions of the Tithe Commissioners and examined and approved of by them for the Poor Law Commissioners by F.W.Simms ...'

Comments on map:

Cadaster not available. Maps north bank of Thames at High Water Mark only. Formerly roll, now back as separate sheets.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

F.W. Simms, Civil Engineer, F.G.C., M.I.C.E., &c. [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

316 x 308

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills: Tide Mill.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Chapels undescribed.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, infirmaries, workhouses, misc: Greenwich Hospital, Royal Naval Asylum.

Education and academic:

schools

Public/administrative boundaries:

boundary markers

Known copies of map:

Greenwich Local Studies Library [unnumbered].

River and foreshore features:

sluices

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Ranger's House.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1866

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560