Kent-Tunbridge Wells-1849 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21499

Map Date:

1849

Repository reference:

Centre for Kentish Studies U.1652.P1

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:

'Plan of Tunbridge Wells Local Act District... surveyed by E.S. Gisborne, Land Agent and Surveyor, Nottingham, 1849.'

Comments on map:

Stylistically somewhat suggestive of Ordnance Survey, though with important differences, e.g. upright Egyptian for woodland names. Buildings quite detailed, but a lack of names in the town.

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

E.S. Gisborne, Land Agent and Surveyor, Nottingham [sv], Maclure, MacDonald & MacGregor, Lithogrs. to the Queen, Liverpool, Manchester & London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

98.3 x 76.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Many ephasised buildings not named.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Sanitary and utility information:

water works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Welfare and charitable:

misc: Model Lodging House.

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds, recreation grounds

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

county, Parish

Known copies of map:

Centre for Kentish Studies U.1652.P1.

Industry:

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

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations

Gardens:

allotments, nurseries: [Allotment Gardens with dots].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Title flourishes.

Relief:

prominent hills

Commons:

shown

Borders:

decorative: Fancy corners.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Named 'gates'.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Miscellaneous physical features:

Toad Rock.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated, misc: Hop Gardens: distinctive pecked-lines and hop-pole symbol.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1866/72

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560