Lincolnshire-Holbeach-1846 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18185

Map Date:

1846

Repository reference:

St John's College, Cambridge, MPS 298

Historic county:

Lincolnshire

Town name:

Holbeach

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TF359249

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TF 3727

Map title:

'...Map of the Parish and Town of Holbeach...'

Comments on map:

'Marsh' and 'Fen' parts at 1:39,600, 'The old inclosed lands' at 1:23,760, 'The Town' at 1:4752. 'Reference' to numbered public buildings in town.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

George Clarke, Land Surveyor, Spalding [sv], S. Straker, Lithographer, 80 Bishopgate St, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

62 x 83

Number of parts:

5

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, fragmentary: Stukeley House.

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Known copies of map:

Lincolnshire Archives PSJ 13/10, St John's College, Cambridge, MPS 298.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, food/drink, misc: Malting Office.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore: [Various former creeks apparent behind sea wall].

Dedicee of map:

'... the Subscribers...'

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:2500

1:10,560