Norfolk-Great Yarmouth-1855 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22569

Map Date:

1855

Repository reference:

Norfolk RO Y/TC 73/84, Y/TC 73/85, Y/TC 73/86, Y/TC 73/87

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Great Yarmouth

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG523080

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 5207

Map title:

'L.B.H. Plan of Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk. By John Laing Engineer and Surveyor Gt Yarmouth 1855.'

Comments on map:

Sealed as First Class by General Board of Health, 21 August 1855. Two versions covered by this record: Y/TC 73/84 is in sheets, Y/TC 73/87 is a single combined map. Y/TC 73/84 has pasted to the title page a litho plan 'Town of Great Yarmouth. 1854', by Laing, with sheet lines added in manuscript. Y/TC 73/84 has various later neat additions, including two extra sheets. Y/TC 73/85 and /86 are two copies of the 1:2640 companion map, with similar title: they omit sanitary information, altitudes within the area mapped at 1:528, licensed premises and most of the industry, but include 1:528 sheet lines and numbers. Y/TC 73/86 has a few later additions.

Scale:

1:528

Map-maker:

John Laing, Engineer and Surveyor, Gt Yarmouth [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

93.0 x 61.5 [1:528 map area: x 20, + title, = 21: 93.0 x 64.0 overall]; 255 x 572 [combined version]; 86.5 x 295 [1:2640; Y/TC 73/86 is 87 x 297].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: On title page of Y/TC 73/84 version only: Sewer Grates ['ladder' effect], Ventilators [Vt], Privy [o], Watercloset [sic: W.C.], Washouse [W.H.], Fish Office [F.O.], Malt House [M.H.], Bench Mark [B.arrow.M.], Dust Bin [D.B.], Green House [G.H.], Houses & Buildings [carmine], Wooden Buildings & Sheds [dark grey], Stone Paving & Flagging [light grey], Macadam or Ballast [sienna], Garden Ground [emerald green], Sewers and drains [red], Water Pipes [blue], Gas Pipes [black], Fire Plug [F.P.], Coach House [C.H.], St [Stable].

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, utilities

Road names:

generally: All rows numbered.

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

masonry distinguished, bay windows, stables/coach houses, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

jetties, piers, quays, misc: Lookout, Bonded Warehouse, Steam Packet Yard, Port Dues Office, Fish Offices [sic].

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, gas mains, lamps, municipal depots, sewers, water mains, misc: Pump, sewer grates; abbreviations: St., C.H., F.P., L.P., M.H., privvies (o). Gas black, sewers red, water blue.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, misc.: Admiralty Yard.

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses, misc: Young Man's Institute [sic].

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

bazaars, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses, sports grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, Ward

Known copies of map:

Nfk RO Y/TC 73/84 [1:528: in sheets, bound; later additions], Nfk RO Y/TC 73/85 [1:2640], Nfk RO Y/TC 73/86 [1:2640: later discreet additions], Y/TC 73/87 [1:528 as single massive 'sheet'] [Nfk RO Y/TC 73/88 is UFP].

Industry:

engineering, food/drink, smithing, rope walk, textiles, abbatoirs, uncertain, misc: Cooperage, Kiln. [Numerous Twine Grounds as well as numerous Rope Walks, smithies and Slaughter Houses].

Railways:

routes, rails, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown, market gardens: With bush-patterns at Royal Naval Hospital.

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Town Wall with towers.

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Monuments:

Monuments: [Nelson Monument].

Post and telegraphs:

post offices, misc: Telegraph House.

Cemeteries:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown: [In quantity].

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, spot heights, other: Basement heights: spots and basements to 0.1 ft, bench marks 0.01 ft. Note of high and low water depths at intervals along bank of River Yare. Datum line noted as 20 feet below bench mark on gate pier on west side of Town Hall; red figures on houses are level of lowest floor.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560