Leicestershire-Melton Mowbray-1843 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

04476

Map Date:

1843

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/19/101

Historic county:

Leicestershire

Town name:

Melton Mowbray

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK752191

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 7822

Comments on map:

Township is mostly mapped at 1:2376 and is surrounded by 30 insets at 1 inch to 80 feet (1:960). The result is a rather confused, detailed plan of buildings, yards and garden plots annotated with ownerships. Reference lists the public buildings, including larger houses and their residents. Amateurishly drawn.

Scale:

1:2376

Production mode:

manuscript

Number of parts:

32

Colouring:

general highlighting of district

Road names:

shown

Building names:

shown

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Turnpikes:

shown: [Toll House].

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/19/101.

Industry:

timber, misc: Coal yards.

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown (extent not recorded)

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

unspecified: [Old Club House].

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

misc: Stable and hotel yards.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560