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Lincolnshire-Gainsborough-1853

CBTM:
20365
Map Date:
? 1853
Repository reference:
Lincolnshire Archives Bacon plans 37
Historic county:
Lincolnshire
Town name:
Gainsborough
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SK813900
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SK 8388
Comments on map:
Possibly overlooked before as it came into the posession of Sir Hickman Bacon, but this is unquestionably produced for the local Board of Health: dating from date of spring tide in river. Sheets all cropped on one or two sides so as to fit together; all signed at top by John Hyde. Reference on sheet 4, but no title or scales. Some later revision added neatly, in red.
Scale:
1:528*
Map-maker:
? John Hyde [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
92.5 x 63.0 [overall: map 88.1 x 57.8].
Number of parts:
8
Legends:
general legend: Sanitation, levels, buildings, road surfacing, gardens, archways.
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use: Gardens: brick etc and wooden etc buildings; stone paving & flagging grey, macadam or ballast sienna, asphalte [sic] lilac.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, archways, glazed areas, steps to buildings: One with Veranda.
Mills:
windmills
Water transport infrastructure:
piers, wharfs, misc: Staiths, Bonding Cellar, Pilot Office.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, lamps, sanitary hazards: Dung Pits, Dung Holes, 'Manure', Discharpe Pipe from WC, Gas Lamp, Wells. Reference has: SG, KS, S, CP, o [privy], WC, RS, A [area], DB 'Dust Bin (generally combined with cesspool)', HB [hotbed], Con [ital: conservatory], BM, LP, GF [ground floor]. ? Sewers (red and blue) added later.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Anglican churches with piers and stairs.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Education and academic:
schools: With playgrounds.
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
recreation grounds
Public/administrative boundaries:
county
Known copies of map:
Lincolnshire Archives Bacon Plans 37
Industry:
food/drink, stone/builders' yards, ship yards, rope walk, textiles, timber, uncertain, misc: Workshops; Carriage Manufactory, Steam mills (with corn, etc, specified).
Railways:
routes, earthworks, goods depots, motive power depots, named, turntables, platforms, rails, passenger stations, misc: Gas Meter for Railway Consumpn., Crane, Booking Offices, Water Cranes, Signals, Carriage Dock, Cattle Pens, Coal Drops.
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [Wharf owners].
Waterbodies:
shown
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Ruins.
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
rubbish tips
Garden and park buildings:
aviaries, summer houses
Stated measuerments:
bench marks, basement levels, spot heights, other: On sheet 8: 'Flood in Autumn of 1852', 'The highest tides flow at about 8 o'clock'. All altitudes to 0.01 ft. 'Where a dwelling house appears without a level the lowest floor of such house lies above the level of the adjoining street.' Bottom left on each sheet: 'The levels are referred to the datum line of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, which is 113.50 feet below the top of the Rails at Pingle Hill Bridge.'
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1884
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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