Leicestershire-Leicester-1835 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19057

Map Date:

? 1835

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] T72/13

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

Map title:

[Top centre, outside border:] 'Combe's Plan of Leicester'; 'Plan of Leicester with the boundaries of the Borough and Parishes Published by T. Combe Junr.'

Comments on map:

Undated; includes the 'Railway from Swannington to Leicester'. Scale measured as about 1 inch to 17 chains.

Scale:

1:13,464

Map-maker:

J. & C. Walker [eng], T. Combe Junr. [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

30.2 x 38.1

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

Buildings, boundaries, other: Churches, Roman Catholic 'Chapel', dissenting chapels, Quakers Meeting House, banks, assembly rooms, theatre, 'New Rooms', boundaries.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown: With roadside Weighing Machine south of the forking of the Melton and Loughborough roads at Belgrave.

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (unspecified type)

Canals:

shown, wharf

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Anglican churches with reversed-out crosses, dessenting chapels with reversed out dots, Quaker Meeting House without infill.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, workhouses

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds, recreation grounds

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish, Ward

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] T72/13.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, lime/cement, metallurgical processing, uncertain

Railways:

routes, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Egyptian for 'Foss Road', gothic elsewhere.

Waterbodies:

shown

Borders:

keyboard type: Piano-key without black-keys.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Milestones.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown, tea-gardens

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560