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Nottinghamshire-Nottingham-1861

CBTM:
20563
Map Date:
1861
Repository reference:
Nottingham Central Library, Local Studies A.20.El.Cab.
Historic county:
Nottinghamshire
Town name:
Nottingham
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SK576396
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SK 5744
Map title:
'Plan of the town and county of the town of Nottingham being the Parliamentary borough thereof comprised within the jurisdiction of the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of Nottingham as the Local Board of Health surveyed and drawn between the years 1851 & 1861 by Fredk. Jackson Civil Engineer &c.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopy; location of original uncertain. Title and legend on sheet 1. Includes whole borough (78 sheets, also 59 A): undeveloped parts at such a scale have to be seen to be believed. Some new streets and associated redevelopment have been drawn over original detail in the central part. Noticeably little text for so large a scale: all the effort went into getting the buildings and streets complete.
Scale:
1:396
Map-maker:
Fredk. Jackson Civil Engineer &c [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
101 x 104 [overall: 99 x 100 within neat lines: sheets seem intended to be 200 yards square] [x 79].
Number of parts:
79
Legends:
altitude information, boundaries, sanitation: Cellar grates (ladder effect), sewer grates [similar], Fire Plugs .FP, Hydrants .H, Lamp Post, .LP, altitudes, Post Office Pillars, .P.O.P., parish and ward boundaries.
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, other: Red altitudes.
Road names:
generally: Includes yards.
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
shown, archways, bay windows, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings, walls: Public buildings hatched.
Turnpikes:
shown
Canals:
shown, depots/yards, wharf
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, sewers
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Anglican cross-hatched with reversed-out cross: others just single-hatched.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, police
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
blind, hospitals, mental, workhouses, misc: Girls Industrial Institution, House of Refuge.
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
race courses, sports grounds, recreation grounds: With Grand Stand, Betting ring, Starting Post.
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish, Ward
Known copies of map:
Nottingham Library A.20.El.Cab.
Railways:
routes, goods depots, motive power depots, named, turntables, platforms, rails, passenger stations: Includes the Great Northern Railway station at London Road, an example of something which came into being some time after the survey began in 1851.
River and foreshore features:
springs: [St Anns Well].
Gardens:
shown: [Named groups; garden paths, but no ornanment].
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls, theatres, etc, baths/spa
Parkland:
public parks: [Arboretum].
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Permanent Line of Road Determined by Official Referee, sidewalks (by dotted lines).
Cemeteries:
shown
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Posts.
Miscellaneous religious group:
Convent.
Stated measuerments:
spot heights, other: To 0.01 ft. Datum is 20 feet below a bench mark at junction of the Leen with the River Trent. 'The numbers in blue represent the upper face of the invert of the sewers from the above datum'.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1879-81
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1899
1:2500
1:10,560
1879-81
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1899
1:2500
1:10,560
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