Lincolnshire-Grimsby-1852
CBTM:
21325
Map Date:
? 1852
Repository reference:
Cambridge University Library Atlas.7.85.19
Historic county:
Lincolnshire
Town name:
Grimsby
Map type:
Hydrographic
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TA266091
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TA 2607
Map title:
'Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Great Grimsby Docks'.
Comments on map:
Preceding title in A description of the new docks at Great Grimsby, Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway [n.p., n.d.], 24 pp, also versions in German (Beschreibung der neuen docken, zu Great Grimsby (24 pp)) and in French (Description des bassins modernes, du Great Grimsby (27 pp)), n.d., but refers (p.3) to the docks 'will be opened' in May 1852. [p.7 notes that the dock tower has a lantern, intended for fixed lights, to be seen over Spurn and 'at a considerable distance out at sea'.] Presumably derived from the Rendel, etc, map of 1848: covers old town and west of railway only; scale in feet.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
Bradshaw & Blacklock Lithogrs, 47 Brown St, Manchester & 59 Fleet St, London [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
84.3 x 54.3
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
public buildings emphasised, some or all buildings omitted.
Water transport infrastructure:
misc, docks, wharfs: Pilot Office; with Outline of Largest Class Steam Frigate in Tidal Basin.
Public buildings:
customs
Known copies of map:
CUL Atlas 7.85.18.
Industry:
misc, food/drink, ship yards, timber: Notes on either side of Old Dock that now occupied with various types of industry, warehouses, etc.
Railways:
named, earthworks, goods depots, passenger stations, rails, routes: Track layout fragementary, especially away from dock.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Magnetic data:
diagram
Waterbodies:
shown
Stated measuerments:
other: Acreages of docks and dimensions of locks.
Ordnance Survey's
1886-7
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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