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Monmouthshire-Monmouth-1835

CBTM:
23526
Map Date:
1835
Repository reference:
Post Office Archive POST 21/62
Historic county:
Monmouthshire
Town name:
Monmouth
Map type:
General Purpose
National grid reference:
SO 509129
Map title:
'Plan of Monmouth from actual survey 1835.'
Comments on map:
Attribution to Wood is on stylistic grounds: he is not named on the map. Most of the ‘names’ on the map are by number keyed to ‘Reference’.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
[John Wood]
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
55.4/55.7 x 48.4/48.7
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
boundaries: Wards.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories: ‘Jail’ shown without infill; Lock-up.
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
Racecourse, Fives Court
Known copies of map:
Post Office Archive POST 21/62
Industry:
bricks/tiles, misc, paper/print, timber: Tannery, (water) Mill.
Miscellaneous:
Outlying meadows and holmes named.
Antiquities:
Jeffry of Monmouth’s Study, castle ruins, site of monastery, site of Holy Trinity Hospital, Roman Road.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: Large ‘outlying’ owners, owners of larger houses.
Road transport:
misc: Coal & Lime Wharf, Proposed New Road.
Waterbodies:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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