Kent-Tunbridge Wells-1828 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18488

Map Date:

1828

Repository reference:

Warwickshire Record Office CR 229/220/5

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:

'Map of Tunbridge Wells in the county of Kent, shewing the situation of the new church and the contiguous proposed improvements on the Calverley Estate, as designed by Decimus Burton 1828.'

Comments on map:

The various retail and service premises suggest a substitute for reality, rather than a wayfinder. The Calverley Park area is shown with detached villas, without infill, rather than the terraces which were actually built.

Scale:

1:3960

Map-maker:

S. Rhodes, Land Surveyor, Wellington Street, Strand [author], Jas & Josiah Neele, 352 Strand [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

56.8 x 52.5 [overall: plate 60.0 x 55.0].

Number of parts:

1

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: New church shown by pictogram.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

county, Parish

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3110(7), Centre for Kentish Studies Maps H.382, CUL Maps.aaa.6, Dudley Archives 758C, Warwicksire RO CR 229/220/5 [originals]; BOL G1/C16.6 [1992: in Ashley Baynton-Williams, Town and city maps of the British Isles 1800-1855, London: Studio Editions, 1992].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, food/drink, uncertain, furniture/pottery: Manufactory.

Gardens:

shown, nurseries: One garden named.

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Notable residents? Also the trade-premises].

Road transport:

wagon office

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right: The new church (Decimus Burton, Archt).

Relief:

prominent hills

Commons:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Retail activity:

shown generally: Various retail & service premises indicated, with proprietors: livery stables, wine merchant, attorney, repository, mews, printing office, surgeon, surgeon, building yard.

Miscellaneous physical features:

Rocks.

Ordnance Survey's

1866/72

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560