Merionethshire-Aberdovey-1863 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23127

Map Date:

1863

Repository reference:

Merionydd Archives Z/CD/202

Historic county:

Merionethshire

Town name:

Aberdovey

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SN614960

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SH 6000

Map title:

'Aberdovey

Comments on map:

Purpose not clear, and cover somewhat eccentric, as includes 'seafront' road, but not the Dyfi estuary itself. Neatly executed. The two mappings of Aberdovey in Exeter 23127 and 23128 appear to be completely independent of each other.

Scale:

1:720

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

229.5 x 60.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, public buildings emphasised, walls: Double lines indicate walls.

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: Lifeboat House.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: 'Church' in gothic, with reversed-out cross on hatched ground; unnamed cross-hatched buildings are shown by the 1860 Cotterell map [Exeter 23128] to be chapels.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Merionydd RO Z/CD/202.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations: Fences only.

River and foreshore features:

misc: Bath [in grounds], Tank.

Relief:

prominent hills: [Some grey shading for marked slopes].

Extractive activity:

mines

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560