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Leicestershire-Loughborough-1837

CBTM:
23537
Map Date:
1837
Repository reference:
Post Office Archive POST 21/68
Historic county:
Leicestershire
Town name:
Loughborough
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SK 537196
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
23537
Map title:
'Plan of Loughborough from actual survey 1837.'
Comments on map:
Includes table of post miles and population.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
John Wood, Surveyor [surv], Turner & Co., Edinr [lith]
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
56.4/57.4 x 68.7/69.5
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
shown: Rather bolder and more generalised treatment than usual with Wood.
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
‘Boat Dock’
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
dispensaries, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
orchards, shown: including Cherry Orchard
Known copies of map:
Post Office Archive POST 21/68
Industry:
misc, rope walk, textiles: Rope Work [sic], Worstead Manufactory, Angola Factory [sic]; also ‘Old Hop Yard’.
Railways:
misc: ‘Projected Rail Road’ (to canal).
Gardens:
nurseries: Nursery area annotated.
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Magnetic data:
declination: undated.
Miscellaneous:
Intended Street.
Parkland:
misc
Service and professional:
banks
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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