Norfolk-Great Yarmouth-1819 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22187

Map Date:

1819

Repository reference:

BOL G.A. Norf. 4o 142

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Great Yarmouth

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG523080

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 5207

Map title:

'Ground plan of Great Yarmouth. 1819.'

Comments on map:

Facing title-page of John Preston, The picture of Yarmouth, Yarmouth: the author, 1819. This is a careful reduction of an earlier plan, n.d. [Exeter 22567].

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

J. Lambert [eng], J. Preston, Yarmouth [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

34.0 x 19.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Quite detailed; a few buildings emphasised but not described.

Turnpikes:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, quays, misc: Crane.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Defence and military:

magazines/arsenals, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BOL G.A.Norf 4o 142, Norwich Library Box XXX, Norfolk RO CHC 5412 [with proposed division into three parishes] [1819]; Norwich Library Box XXX [1842].

Industry:

food/drink, rope walk, timber

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Waterbodies:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560