Leicestershire-Market Harborough-1839
CBTM:
21092
Map Date:
1839
Repository reference:
Leicestershire RO Ma/215/1 [location: GC 23; st 42/151]
Historic county:
Leicestershire
Town name:
Market Harborough
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SP733872
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 7388
Map title:
'Plan of the township of Market Harborough made by John Wood, 1839.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from a very careful-looking transcript, 'Traced from litho. Nov. 1952'. Bottom left is usual Reference to post miles, fairs, and population in 1831.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
John Wood, Landsurveyor, 53 Threadneedle St, London [sv].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
52.5 x 68.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
shown
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, internal revenue
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
dispensaries
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
county, Parish, township
Known copies of map:
Leicestershire RO Ma/215/1 [location: GC 23] [1952 transcript]; CUL 9474.b.1316 [in J.C. Davies, The book of Market Harborough, 1984].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink, uncertain, misc: Coach Manufactory, Factory.
Gardens:
shown
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown: [Wood's usual style].
Waterbodies:
shown
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Stone [at road junction].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1884
1:2500
1:10,560
1899
1:2500
1:10,560
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