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Leicestershire-Market Bosworth-1883

CBTM:
21088
Map Date:
1883
Repository reference:
Leicestershire RO DE 295/37/1 [open access]
Historic county:
Leicestershire
Town name:
Market Bosworth
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SK405031
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SK 4406
Map title:
'Plan of the Bosworth Park Estate, Leicestershire. To be sold by auction by Messrs. Driver & Co. 4, Whitehall, London. 1883. In one lot.'
Comments on map:
Record is conflation of a 1:4752* general map, at DE 295/37/1, in deteriorating condition, and muggy photo of enlargement of town (original not located) in Peter J. Foss, The history of Market Bosworth, Wymondham: Sycamore Press, 1983, p.176. Dimensions apply to main map.
Scale:
1:4752*
Map-maker:
R. Clay, Sons & Taylor, Litho., London [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
118 x 118
Number of parts:
2
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
shown
Canals:
shown
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Leicestershire RO DE 295/37/1 [open access].
Industry:
bricks/tiles
Railways:
routes, named, rails, passenger stations
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary for location purposes
Waterbodies:
shown
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1884-5
1:2500
1:10,560
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