Lincolnshire-Lincoln-1849 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19505

Map Date:

22.9.1849

Repository reference:

Lincoln City Hall, Planning Dept

Historic county:

Lincolnshire

Town name:

Lincoln

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK978718

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 9767

Map title:

'Proposed plan for the sewerage of the city of Lincoln.'

Comments on map:

Extensively pricked for tracing. [The background to the various versions of this 1:1584 map is given in J.W.F. Hill, Victorian Lincoln, Cambridge U.P., 1974. p.162: A Sanitary Committee was set up by the city council following the Public Health Act of 1848: George Giles reported by September 1849: estimated cost 29,388L: the city council was in favour, but it was thwarted by well-organised outside opposition. pp.164-7: sanitary efforts, 1858-66: p.165: 'The hillside was dotted with cesspools...' p.166: following bad state of public health in Lincoln, on 30:1:66 the council resolved to adopt the Public Health Act of 1858

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

George Giles, Civil Engineer, Lincoln [? sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

123 x 246

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, utilities: Churchyards and burial grounds green.

Road names:

generally: Also courts, alleys, rows, etc: more detailed than on Padley 1842.

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills: By morphology only.

Sanitary and utility information:

municipal depots, reservoirs, sewers, water works, misc: Cess pools (for big institutions only), gradients on sewers; sewers red.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Not complete: Friends Meeting House identified by burial ground only. Internal layout of cathedral shown.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, misc: Judges Lodgings.

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

mental, misc

Education and academic:

schools: Diocesan only shown.

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Known copies of map:

[Lincoln City Hall, Planning Dept].

Railways:

routes, platforms, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Cross sections of sewers in red and carmine, bottom left.

Cemeteries:

shown

Stated measuerments:

spot heights, other: These seem to be related to sewer levels rather than to ground levels, but they go right up the hill on the east side of the built-up area, at roughly 10-ft intervals. 'Summer Level at High Bridge 10.50'.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560