Kent-Margate-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21528

Map Date:

1852

Repository reference:

Margate Library, Heritage Room, L.13,678a-h-L.13,684.a-h

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Margate

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR355710

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 3566

Map title:

'Town of Margate Sheet...'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopies: litho with hand-colour. Bottom centre: surveyed by Ordnance Survey 1852.

Scale:

1:528

Map-maker:

Ordnance Survey [sv], Day & Son, Lithrs to the Queen [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

91.0 x 61.0 [x 11: overall 91.0 x 68.0].

Number of parts:

11

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use: Gardens.

Road names:

generally: Also house-numbers [apparently].

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, archways, glazed areas, steps to buildings, walls: Sheds, etc, shown by dashes, glazed areas shown by cross-hatching, walls and gates in them by single lines, archways by X; but no public building interiors.

Water transport infrastructure:

jetties, navigation aids, piers, misc: Capstans, Cranes.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, lamps, misc: Well House. Abbreviations: Bn., C.H., C.S., D.W., G.P., L.P., S.G., S.H., St., W.H., privvies (o).

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, police

Education and academic:

schools: Boys and girls playgrounds noted.

Markets and exchanges:

markets, bazaars: [French Bazaar].

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds, misc: Skittle Alleys.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Margate Library, Heritage Room, L.13,678a-h-L.13,684.a-h.

Industry:

chemicals, engineering, food/drink, stone/builders' yards, lime/cement, rope walk, timber, abbatoirs, misc: Soda Water Manufactory, Pipe Manufactory, Coach Factory, Livery Stables.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms, misc: [Bathing Room, Reading Room shown at the Clifton Baths], Camera Obscura.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

learned societies

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Cemeteries:

shown

Geodetic notes:

'The marginal lines are perpendicular and parallel to the Meridian of Trinity Church.'

Garden and park buildings:

misc: Pigeon House.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, spot heights, other: Spot and basement heights to 0.1 ft, bench marks to 0.01 ft: above approximate mean sea level.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1872-3

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560

1872-3

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560