Lincolnshire-Lincoln-1851
CBTM:
18221
Map Date:
1851
Repository reference:
Lincoln Library, Map 865 [Glass Cabinet]
Historic county:
Lincolnshire
Town name:
Lincoln
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
SK978718
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SK 9769
Map title:
'To Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead Bart F.R.S. of L. & E., This Plan of the City of Lincoln is most respectfully dedicated by his most obliged and faithful servant James Sandby Padley, Surveyor, 1842. Corrected to 1851.' [No copyright note.]
Comments on map:
The map was printed from certainly two and possibly four separate plates.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
James Sandby Padley [sv], John Dower, Pentonville, London [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
104.3 x 122.3
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
Buildings: Public buildings, dwellings, outhouses.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
(unspecified type)
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Cathedral with piers, etc.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, Parish
Known copies of map:
BOL C17:70 Lincoln d.1, CUL Maps.a.70.84.1, Lincoln Library Drawer 10 [1842]; Lincoln Library [1851] [Exeter 18221]; BLML Maps 4.b.39, BOL C17:70 Lincoln c.1, CUL Maps.C.70.86.1, Lincolnshire Archives 4 BM 16 [UFP], Lincoln Library, NLS Map.3.e.47 [1868] [Exeter 18222]; Lincoln Library [1878.c: 1:7040] [Exeter 18220]; BLML Maps 8.b.17, Lincolnshire Archives TSJ 12/8, Lincoln Library [1883: Padley & Thrupp, '3rd ed'] [Exeter 18223]; the 1842, 1851, 1868 and 1883 editions are reproduced in D.R. Mills and R.C. Wheeler, Historic town plans of Lincoln 1610-1920 (Lincoln: Lincoln Record Society and Survey of Lincoln, 2004) [Lincoln Record Society publications, Vol. 92].
Industry:
metallurgical processing, ship yards, uncertain
Railways:
routes, earthworks, named, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners
Waterbodies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
South view of the city: the three figures are in 1840s costume, cf the man's collar and hat. Vertical sections of High Street from High Bridge to Newport and of Roman and city walls.
Relief:
slopes shown
Commons:
shown
Borders:
decorative
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Dedicee of map:
Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1885-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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