Leicestershire-Leicester-1804 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19351

Map Date:

? 1804

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

Leicestershire

Town name:

Leicester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK584044

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 5904

Comments on map:

Provenance uncertain: recorded from Jack Simmons, Leicester past and present, London: Methuen, 1974, I, 128-9, where it is 'Leicester in 1804'.

Scale:

1:7920

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

17.2 x 26.1

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Known copies of map:

BL X.0800/636, TNA [PRO] Library [in Jack Simmons, Leicester Past & Present I, 1974, 128-9].

Leisure and entertainment:

misc: 'Assembly Rooms & Hotel'.

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560