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Kent-Ramsgate-1883

CBTM:
21134
Map Date:
[1883]
Repository reference:
BL PP.2505.ye/56
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:
'Ramsgate'.
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:
1:14,080*
Map-maker:
Hutchings & Crowsley, Dashwood House, New Broad St, E.C. [etc] [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
15.5 x 14.2 [inset: printed area 51.7 x 33.7 overall].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Water transport infrastructure:
harbours, navigation aids, piers
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, water works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Defence and military:
coastguard
Welfare and charitable:
infirmaries
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges, observatories
Known copies of map:
BL PP.2505.ye/56.
Industry:
food/drink, ship yards
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, foreshore material specified
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Miscellaneous religious group:
Monastry.
Ordnance Survey's
1879-82
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1871-2
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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