Norfolk-Great Yarmouth-1883 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22574

Map Date:

1883

Repository reference:

Norfolk RO Y/BE 1/8-10

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Great Yarmouth

Map type:

Utility

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG523080

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 5207

Map title:

'Map of Great Yarmouth shewing the sewers referred to in the Borough Surveyors report dated January 20th 1883'.

Comments on map:

There are three maps here: Y/BE 1/8 on paper, to which the main record refers, fairly finished; Y/BE 1/10 on linen, with similar title, with streets and main sewers in blue and subsidiary ones in red, and Y/BE 1/9, untitled, on linen, similar to the main map, with rather less text, and note that scale is 1 inch to 132 feet (1:1584).

Scale:

1:1584*

Map-maker:

J.W. Cockrill, Borough Surveyor [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

204 x 122

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, utilities: 'Ordinary' buildings greeny-grey.

Road names:

partly: Not rows.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: In fact, vignetting of blocks: no details at all of 'ordinary' buildings. Most emphasised buildings not named: some churches apparent from 'buttresses'.

Water transport infrastructure:

jetties, piers, quays

Sanitary and utility information:

sewers: In red.

Defence and military:

barracks

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Norfolk RO Y/BE 1/8-10.

Parkland:

public parks

Antiquities:

Town wall: unnamed.

Stated measuerments:

other: Sewer numbers.

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560