Kent-Ramsgate-1823 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18319

Map Date:

1823

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3110 (6)

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Ramsgate

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR380650

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 3566

Map title:

'Map of the Town and Royal Harbour of Ramsgate from an actual survey made in the year 1822 by R. Collard and G. Hurst, and which is most respectfully dedicated to Sir Wm. Curtis Bart. M.P.'

Comments on map:

A striking map, in some ways anticipating Ordnance Survey 1:2500 or larger-scale style, but notably devoid of house-names, e.g., and backward- rather than forward-looking in its use of pictorial upstanding features, e.g. windmills.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

R. Collard and G. Hurst [sv], R. Collard, Broadstairs [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

77.5 x 64.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Road names:

generally: At least 3 varieties of lettering: u.c. and l.c. Roman, l.c. italic.

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial): Five quite large detailed pictorial ones.

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, harbours, lighthouses, navigation aids, piers, misc: Mostly indicated by shape rather than by description: harbour capstans, dry dock, etc, seem to be indicated in some detail, but a marked lack of descriptions. Pictorial lighthouse on pier; the loyally Hanoverian obelisk also appears in minature.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: Town.

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3110(5); [1823] BLML Maps 3110(6), Centre for Kentish Studies 18/820 [repro], Ramsgate Lib [repro]; Centre for Kentish Studies Sa/P4; East Kent Archives Sa/P4; Margate Lib. Y.066.40 L.10,773 [photo], Map Box [original?]; Rochester CCRC P.39; CUL Maps.d.67.84.4, East Kent Archives 297/1/3 [annotated in 1864], Margate Lib. Y066.40 P.7312 [original], L.3558, L.9074 [photos], Ramsgate Lib (on wall) [G.W.H inds, 1849]; CUL 9474.b.1361 [1822/1985: in C.B usson, The book of Ramsgate].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

On left: 'The OBELISK now erecting in commemoration of His Majesty's embarkation and return to Ramsgate in the year 1821.'

Borders:

keyboard type

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Monuments:

obelisks, (pictorial)

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Dedicee of map:

Sir William Curtis, Bart, MP.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560