Kent-Tunbridge Wells-1808
CBTM:
21025
Map Date:
18.4.1808
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 141.a.1(78)
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Tunbridge Wells
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ582396
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 5944
Map title:
'A plan of Tunbridge Wells, ... shewing the situation of all the lodging houses, publick walks, inns, and every thing worthy of notice.'
Comments on map:
'Engraved from an accurate survey.' Reference to numbered lodging houses to left and right of mapped area.
Scale:
1:3960
Map-maker:
T.T. Barrow, Land Surveyor, Tunbridge Wells [sv, pb], Neele, Strand [eng], I. Hatchard, Piccadilly, London [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
62.3 x 53.2
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished: Also lodging-houses.
Turnpikes:
shown
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
race courses, misc: Pictorial U-shaped fenced area is perhaps a cricket wicket: see the Cronk map [Exeter 21027].
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
county, Parish: [One parish boundary omitted].
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 141.a.1(78).
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink, furniture/pottery, timber, uncertain: Manufactory.
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [Some occupiers or owners: include 'BARROW Land Surveyor'].
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Drawing instruments above.
Relief:
cliffs: [Rocks on open land].
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Symbolic elements:
Drawing instruments: above title.
Retail activity:
limited range: Some indicated on the map, or in the list of lodgings.
Dedicee of map:
'Dedicated to those of the nobility and gentry who presented him with the engraving.'
Other land-uses & land-cover:
heath/uncultivated
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete
Ordnance Survey's
1866/72
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
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