Lincolnshire-Louth-1874 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19502

Map Date:

30.9.1874

Repository reference:

Lincolnshire Archives Dixon 18/3/13

Historic county:

Lincolnshire

Town name:

Louth

Map type:

Utility

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TF328874

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TF 3387

Map title:

'Plan of the borough of Louth showing its division into 6 districts for the removal of house refuse and night-soil. October 1874'.

Comments on map:

Evidently a neat copy of buildings (solid black) and field etc boundaries only from the Dewhirst & Nichols map of 1839 [Exeter 19499]. Railways (E. Lincs and to Bardney) added in pencil.

Scale:

1:14,400*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

47.0 x 66.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, boundaries

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Canals:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: Refuse collection districts, annotated in manner, 'District no.3. Time of removal from 10.0 p.m. on Tuesday to 6.0 a.m. on Wednesday.' District no.1 begins at 12.0 on Sunday, and presumably contained fewer houses.

Known copies of map:

Lincolnshire Archives Dixon 18/3/13.

Map material:

tracing-paper

Ordnance Survey's

1887-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560