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Norfolk-Kings Lynn-1830

CBTM:
19047
Map Date:
1830
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] T72/13
Historic county:
Norfolk
Town name:
Kings Lynn
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TF617198
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TF 6523
Map title:
'Plan of Kings Lynn from actual survey 1830.'
Comments on map:
Usual population table (Kings Lynn, South Lynn, West Lynn, Gaywood) superimposed bottom left. [Bottom margin cropped from TNA [PRO] T72 copy.]
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
[John Wood [sv]], W. Murphy, Edinburgh [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
51.0 x 72.0 [allows for cropped bottom margin].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Water transport infrastructure:
quays, wharfs
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
town gates
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, infirmaries, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools, observatories
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Kings Lynn Borough Archives, TNA [PRO] T72/13 [original]; CUL Maps.aa.77.97.1, Norfolk RO Searchroom, RGS Eng & Wales S.721 [reproduced from its original by Lynn museum, 1975, ref KL.80964: 1:4500].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink, ship yards, rope walk, timber, uncertain: Engine Ho. at Kettle Mill.
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
'Old Tower' [Greyfriars], Ladys Mount; St James is 'Workhouse'.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1883
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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