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Kent-Woolwich-1843

CBTM:
23491
Map Date:
? 1843
Repository reference:
Greenwich Heritage Centre: 19th century non-OS drawers
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Plumstead, Woolwich
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ 433788
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 4572
Map title:
'Map... olwich... 43 for the ... oners... Bloomfield....'
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopy with most of title lost. Good on buildings, light on text.
Scale:
1:5280*
Map-maker:
E. Jones, Library, Woolwich [pb, sell].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
67.5 x 74.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards, wharfs
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, misc: Chalybeate Spring.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Defence and military:
barracks, magazines/arsenals, misc.: Observatory. All buildings mapped.
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
ecclesiastical districts, Parish
Known copies of map:
Greenwich Heritage Centre [photo].
Industry:
furniture/pottery
Railways:
projected or otherwise unbuilt lines
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Waterbodies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom right: a chapel; ? entrance to arsenal.
Relief:
prominent hills
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1848-50
1:1056
1:5280
1:10,560
Skeleton survey
1866-8
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1893-4
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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