Northamptonshire-Peterborough-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20850

Map Date:

24.6.1840

Repository reference:

Northamptonshire RO Map 4171 [original], Map 4704 [transcript]

Historic county:

Northamptonshire

Town name:

Peterborough

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL193986

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 1799

Map title:

'Map of the city and borough of Peterborough in the county of Northampton.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy, supplemented by 1979 transcript.

Scale:

1:12,000

Map-maker:

Dewhirst & Nichols, Civil Engineers, London [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

75 x 50

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

dispensaries, infirmaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish, misc: Minster precincts; [old and new borough boundaries].

Known copies of map:

Northamptonshire RO Map 4171 [photo]; Northamptonshire RO Map 4704, Peterborough Central Library, local studies, strongroom [transcript].

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560