Monmouthshire-Abergavenny-1834
CBTM:
23532
Map Date:
1834
Repository reference:
Post Office Archive POST 21/119
Historic county:
Monmouthshire
Town name:
Abergavenny
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO 300140
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
23532
Map title:
'Plan of Abergavenny from an actual survey. 1834.'
Comments on map:
Includes table with fairs and population in 1831.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
John Wood, Surveyor, Carnarvon [sv, sells], J. & W. Smith & Wood, Edinburgh [litho], Abergavenny [sold at].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
52.7/53.5 x 63.6/64.4
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
boundaries: Wards.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Turnpikes:
With ‘Weight’: open rectangle.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
Parliament
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: Castle
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown: includes Withy & Gravel Bed.
Known copies of map:
Post Office Archive POST 21/119.
Industry:
food/drink, textiles: Skin Yard.
Railways:
goods depots, industrial tramways/waggonways, named: Coal Wharf.
Gardens:
nurseries, shown
Parkland:
misc
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown: Incomplete in built-up part.
Road transport:
wagon office: Carriers Office
Commons:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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here