Kent-Plumstead-1842 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

03908

Map Date:

1842

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/17/294

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Plumstead

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ450787

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 4572

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

A. Doull [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, other: Rifle butts [grey], red walls.

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: 'Ordnance Chapel' and 'Church' written in gothic.

Defence and military:

misc.: Royal Arsenal [interior in detail, with 'appropriations' of the principal buildings given], rifle butts [in grey], boundary walls [single red lines].

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/17/294, Centre for Kentish Studies CTR 290 A+B.

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1866-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560