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Lincolnshire-Lincoln-1849

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
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