Lincolnshire-Grimsby-1812 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18227

Map Date:

? 1812

Repository reference:

Lincolnshire Archives Office Misc. Dep. 311/1

Historic county:

Lincolnshire

Town name:

Grimsby

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TA266091

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TA 2607

Map title:

'A plan of the Town, Harbour and Lordship of Great Grimsby'.

Comments on map:

Not dated: paper is watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1819, so Lincolnshire Archives's date of 1820 in its card index is quite reasonable.

Scale:

1:9504

Map-maker:

W. Smith [sv], G. Parker [eng].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

68.4 x 48.6

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, misc: Harbour or New Dock; Dolphin (with distance to Spurn Head), Buoy.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses

Public/administrative boundaries:

hamlet

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3425(3), Grimsby Library SM 11 [ watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1819], Lincolnshire Archives Misc Dep 311/1 ['c.1820'] [originals]; Grimsby Library SM 10 [photo]; BOL G.A.Lincoln 8o94 [in Anderson Bates, A gossip about Old Grimsby, Albert Gait, 1893: c.1:21,000];

Industry:

food/drink, rope walk

River and foreshore features:

misc: Blow Wells.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

On left: Custom House; on right: St James Church.

Commons:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Blue Stone.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict industry, rubbish tips: Old Coal Hill, [Raff Yard west of Loft Street, here 'Turnpike Road'].

Ordnance Survey's

1886-7

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560