Kent-Margate-1883 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21133

Map Date:

[1883]

Repository reference:

BL PP.2505.ye/56

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:

'Margate'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Map of the Isle of Thanet and neighbourhood', frontispiece to Directory and guide to the Isle of Thanet..., 1883-4 [BM blue 20 Oc 83], also 1885-6 [BM blue 26 Se 85], London: Hutchings and Crowsley. It looks rather like a photo-copy of the W. & A.K. Johnston map [Exeter 19012]. The main map is a photographic copy from Ordnance Survey 1:63,360 New Series, about 13.0 x 11.4 ins (33.2 x 29.0 cm), with a little retouching and 2-inch squaring.

Scale:

1:15,840*

Map-maker:

Hutchings & Crowsley, Dashwood House, New Broad St, E.C. [etc] [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

15.3 x 14.0 [inset: printed area 51.7 x 33.7 overall].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

(unspecified type): In fact wind.

Water transport infrastructure:

navigation aids, piers

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, water works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

coastguard, drill halls

Welfare and charitable:

deaf & dumb

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

BL PP.2505.ye/56.

Industry:

bricks/tiles

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified

Gardens:

nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, ice-skating

Parkland:

public parks

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Ordnance Survey's

1872-3

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560