Norfolk-Great Yarmouth-1826
CBTM:
22565
Map Date:
1826
Repository reference:
Norfolk RO Y/C 37/4/1
Historic county:
Norfolk
Town name:
Great Yarmouth
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TG523080
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TG 5207
Map title:
'Map of estates the property of the Mayor, Aldermen, Burgesses, and Commonalty of the Borough of Great Yarmouth in the County of Norfolk and of their Wastes called The Denes. 1826.'
Comments on map:
Does not show town within walls. Book of reference at Norfolk RO Y/C 37/4/2, with names of tenants, descriptions of properties, and acreages: rental column blank. Outlying parts at 1:1584 and 1:2376. Has later additions up to c.1860 overlaid.
Scale:
1:792
Map-maker:
Wm Newton, Surveyor, Norwich [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
112 x 570
Number of parts:
3
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use, owners: Various colours to distinguish individual corporation tenements adjoining each other.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Mills:
windmills
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, jetties, piers, quays
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, misc: Named wells.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
Norfolk RO Y/C 37/4 [original]; Norfolk RO y/C 37/5 [1829: Newton & Woodrow, smaller scale: microfilm MF/RO 211/10].
Industry:
food/drink, rope walk, textiles
River and foreshore features:
springs
Gardens:
shown: [A few areas annotated thus].
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Antiquities:
Town Wall, gates, named towers.
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary for location purposes
Waterbodies:
shown
Commons:
shown
Monuments:
Monuments: [Nelson's Monument].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1883
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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