Northumberland-Berwick upon Tweed-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20013

Map Date:

1852

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPEE 1/85

Historic county:

Northumberland

Town name:

Berwick upon Tweed

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT997530

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 9953

Map title:

'Plan of the towns of Berwick upon Tweed Tweedmouth and Spital, in the county of the borough and town of Berwick upon Tweed, surveyed for the purposes of the Local Board of Health 1852.' 1:528 sheetlines shown by discreet pecked lines.

Comments on map:

No mention of the Ordnance Survey, though stylistically it is a close copy.

Scale:

1:2640

Map-maker:

Day & Son, Lithrs to the Queen [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

65.5 x 95.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours: Boxes for: Houses and other permanent buildings; Public Buildings [hatched black]; Sheds and Temporary Buildings; Streets and Roads; Garden Ground; Sea, Rivers and Brooks; Shore, river Banks, &c. Large-scale sheet lines noted as on meridian of Bell Tower.

Colouring:

other: Provision for colouring buildings, roads and gardens.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

piers, quays, misc: Dolphins, Batts.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

barracks, coastguard, castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls: Bastions, etc, named.

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

county

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MPEE 1/85 [formerly MPE 1/944].

Industry:

salt, engineering, food/drink, rope walk, timber, misc: Bone Mill.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations: Full track layouts, including under roofs.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Corporation Weighing Machine.

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, spot heights: Bench marks to .01 ft, spot heights to .1 ft. Altitudes above approximate mean sea level [no location].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1851

1:528

1856

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560