Merionethshire-Aberdovey-1863
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
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