Leicestershire-Leicester-1840
CBTM:
21079
Map Date:
1840
Repository reference:
Leicestershire RO [open access]
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:
'Map of the borough of Leicester divided into parishes & wards. 1840.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from reduced photocopy of rather battered original. Scale inferred.
Scale:
1:6336
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
83 x 64
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
Buildings, boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Public buildings, hotels & inns, others: by shading.
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills, watermills, (pictorial)
Canals:
shown
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
police
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, infirmaries, mental, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
race courses, sports grounds
Woodland:
shown, orchards, misc: Corporation Willows.
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, Parish, Ward: [Old and new borough boundaries].
Known copies of map:
Leicestershire RO Ma/179/1 [1840]; Leicestershire RO [open access] [1840: photo]; Leicestershire RO [open access] [1844: photo].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, rope walk, textiles, uncertain: Factory.
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Gardens:
nurseries
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks, insurance offices
Waterbodies:
shown
Commons:
shown
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfold].
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete
Ordnance Survey's
1884-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1884-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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