Norfolk-Great Yarmouth-1847 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22521

Map Date:

? 1847

Repository reference:

Norwich Library Local Studies [maps] Box XXXII

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 within the walls.'

Comments on map:

Buildings identified by numbers and letters: no reference to hand, and no sign of folding or other hint of extraction from a book. Dated 1847 in Library list: seems to be pre-railway [1848].

Scale:

1:9504

Map-maker:

Sloman, Lithr., Yarmouth [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

22.5 x 16.8

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

fragmentary

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised: Some hatched, some solid black.

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Three named wells.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Apparent from shape.

Defence and military:

town walls: Towers numbered.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Norwich Library Box XXXII.

Ferries:

ferry

Tenement boundaries group:

very incomplete: Indicate 'rows' only.

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560