Kent-Margate-1858 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21529

Map Date:

1.1858

Repository reference:

Margate Library, Heritage Room, 060.40 Map Box, L.429, L.5516

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Margate

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR355710

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 3566

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Margate surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department in 1852 in accordance with the provisions of the Public Health Act.' 'Revised and corrected by William Caveler Esqre Architect & Surveyor.'

Comments on map:

Ordnance Survey parentage apparent, but does not seem a slavish copy.

Scale:

1:2640

Map-maker:

William Caveler Esqre, Architect & Surveyor [author], Tho. Wa[terlow?: torn] [lith], Thomas H. Keble, Margate [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

95 x 66

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries: [Wards].

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

piers, misc: Slip Way.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Defence and military:

coastguard

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Ward, misc: Rating Boundary.

Known copies of map:

Margate Library, Heritage Room, 060.40 Map Box, L.429, L.5516 [photocopy].

Industry:

food/drink

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc

Miscellaneous:

Boundary of 1:528.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

learned societies

Relief:

cliffs

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: Town seal: top left, to right of title.

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete