Lincolnshire-Boston-1829
CBTM:
18819
Map Date:
1829
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] T72/8
Historic county:
Lincolnshire
Town name:
Boston
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TF328441
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TF 3345
Map title:
'Plan of Boston and environs. 1829.'
Comments on map:
Note below reference that river is navigable to Boston for ships of 120 tons, and in river itself that is navigable to Lincoln 32 miles.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
John Wood, Boston & Scarborough [sv, pb], T. Clerk, Edinr [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
55.7 x 86.3
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Mills:
windmills: Includes 5 sail mill [Maud Foster] and 'Eight sail mill Mr. W.W. Tuxford'.
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, police
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
TNA [PRO] T72/8; TNA [PRO] T72/12 [extended cover by R. Reynolds, 9:35]; BOL G.A. Lincs c.23, CUL Atlas.5.97.97, TNA [PRO] Library [Frank H. Molyneaux and Neil R. Wright, An atlas of Boston, Boston: Richard Kay, 1974, p.19].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink, stone/builders' yards, metallurgical processing, ship yards, rope walk
River and foreshore features:
sluices: [Grand Sluice].
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Magnetic data:
diagram
Antiquities:
Friarage.
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners
Waterbodies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom left: St Botolphs church from west-north-west.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1886-7
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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