Leicestershire-Ashby de la Zouch-1837 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21078

Map Date:

1837

Repository reference:

Leicestershire RO PP/26 [Positive Print 2/72]

Historic county:

Leicestershire

Town name:

Ashby de la Zouch

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK359168

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 3614

Map title:

'Plan of Ashby de la Zouch from actual survey 1837.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photograph, reduced to about one-third linear scale, by A. Speakman, Ashby, ? inter-war: colour reduces legibility in places. There is a much more legible transcript as the rear endpaper in Kenneth Hillier, The book of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1984. Has Wood's usual reference to post-miles, fairs and bank.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

John Wood, Nun[eaton?] [author].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

50 x 60 [inferred from photo].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

owners: Marquis of Hastings, School, other.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, misc: Well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

schools: With Play Ground at Grammar School.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

Leicestershire RO PP/26 [Positive Print 2/72] [photo]; BOL G.A. Leic. 4o 142, CUL 9474.b.1317, Leicestershire RO [open access] [transcript: in K. Hillier, The Book of Ashby de la Zouch, Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1984].

Industry:

timber, misc: Coach Work, Stone Yard.

Railways:

routes: As road.

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc

Magnetic data:

diagram

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Ruins of the Castle.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Wharf Yard.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1881

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560