Middlesex-Chiswick-1899 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20474

Map Date:

1.1899

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/253

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Chiswick

Map type:

Utility

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ205775

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 1978

Map title:

'Plan of the parish of Chiswick shewing line of sewers & position of lamps also health districts. 1899.'

Comments on map:

Streets, sewers, lamps and not much else. Dated Jan., 1899. Bacon's code 89H2+ [sic].

Scale:

1:5280

Map-maker:

Arthur Ramsden, Engineer & Surveyor [author], G.W. Bacon & Co. Ltd., 127 Strand, London [pr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

71.3 x 63.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries, sanitation: Sewers and lamps, with note of lamps paid for by other parishes.

Colouring:

utilities

Road names:

generally: Include Dead Donkey Lane.

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

boat houses

Sanitary and utility information:

lamps, pumping stations, sewers, misc: [Lamps: all numbered; sewers red with direction-of-flow arrows].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

misc: Vestry Hall.

Recreation and sports venues:

recreation grounds

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, misc: Health districts: these are localities rather than precisely defined by boundaries.

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/253.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, passenger stations: No 'rails'.

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Proposed road and bridge.

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1865

1:2500

1:10,560

1893

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560