Monmouthshire-Pontypool-1836
CBTM:
22107
Map Date:
1836
Repository reference:
BOL G.A. Monm. 8o 148/1
Historic county:
Monmouthshire
Town name:
Pontypool
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO282006
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SO 2606
Map title:
'Plan of Pont-y-Pool. 1836'.
Comments on map:
Pasted in back of Reginald Nichols (ed), Monmouthshire medley, vol 1, Risca: Starling Press, 1976, to accompany article Richard Hanbury Tenison, 'The Hanburys of Pontypool', ib., 18-29; muggy photo of original in possession of R. Hanbury Tenison. [Map is apparently not mentioned in article.] Scale and dimensions as in photo, which is somewhat reduced. Notes on fairs, market days, post miles and population on left.
Scale:
1:3960
Map-maker:
John Wood, Surveyor, Edinburgh [author].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
40.5 x 36.7
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Well.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
BOL G.A.Monm.8o 148/3 [in back of Reginald Nichols (ed), Monmouthshire medley, vol 1, Risca: Starling Press, 1976].
Industry:
lime/cement, timber, misc: Coal Yards.
Railways:
industrial tramways/waggonways
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Some owners in less built-up parts].
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
prominent hills
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1877-8
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1899
1:2500
1:10,560
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