Kent-Westgate on Sea-1872 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21525

Map Date:

1872

Repository reference:

Margate Library, Heritage Room, Y058.40 P.6763

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Westgate on Sea

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR323701

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 3566

Map title:

'Westgate on Sea Thanet, Kent.'

Comments on map:

Code '(400-6/72-538)' bottom left: presumably June 1872. 'This plan is subject to modification' above scale: the whole thing seems to be a planner's or developer's fiction, and it is questionable whether it ought to be in our database.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

C.N. Beazeley, Archt. 96 Guildford St, W.C. [author], Geo. Kelly & Co. Lith., Charles St, Parliament St, S.W. [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

106.0 x 69.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, general highlighting of district, transport.: Hand-coloured.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, steps to buildings

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

coastguard

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Margate Library, Heritage Room, Y058.40, P.6763.

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations: Station red.

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Post and telegraphs:

flagstaff

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Other land-uses & land-cover:

building ground: [Sites for villas].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1872-3

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560