Nottinghamshire-Nottingham-1862 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19829

Map Date:

? 1862

Repository reference:

BLML Maps cc.2.h.5

Historic county:

Nottinghamshire

Town name:

Nottingham

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK576396

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 5744

Map title:

'...plan of the town of Nottingham and its environs (from a special survey) ...'

Comments on map:

An unusually late example of the extra-high-quality-large-scale type of the 1820s and 1830s. Considerable variety of lettering, sometimes aping Ordnance Survey, but sometimes going beyond, especially in the title. Nottinghamshire Archives date it 1862; BLML date it 1861-4. Includes table of levels at 15 places, reference to druidical remains found in the cemetery (including 'Private cell of Arch Druid'), table of comparative population in 1851 and 1861, and latitude and longitude, magnetic variation, and mean time.

Scale:

1:2400

Map-maker:

Edward J. Salmon [sv], James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen, Charing Cross East, London [eng, pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

186 x 161 [80.5 x 61-62.5 x 6].

Number of parts:

6

Legends:

boundaries, postal: [Pillar letter boxes].

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally: Variously Roman capitals, roman lower case, italic lower case, according to importance.

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, water works, misc: Drinking Fountain.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Anglican & R.C. in gothic, others in sans-serif; steps in churchyards.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries: [Bastion, Ruins of Turret, etc at castle].

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses, sports grounds: With Grand Stand.

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, Ward

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps cc.2.h.5, CUL Maps.80.86.2,1-, Nottinghamshire Archives NO47L, Nottinghamshire Archives Belpher Lib [1862]; Nottingham Library A.20.1861 [1988: repr. Nottm Civic Soc]; Nottingham Library [Trent Polytechnic Planning Department: 1 sheet]; CUL Maps.bb.19.G.88 [1991.c facsimile].

Railways:

routes, turntables, named, rails, passenger stations, misc: Gate House, Signal House; lines by single centre-lines, but includes tracks under roofs.

Gardens:

shown, allotments: [These are very extensive, and include both ornamental gardens to larger houses, and extensive areas of (presumably) allotment-type gardens].

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, public halls, theatres, etc

Magnetic data:

value (undated)

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground: With Refreshment Rooms.

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Decorated oblong: surround and lettering look more appropriate to a Victorian gothic church.

Clubs and societies:

mechanics institutes

Borders:

decorative: Rather churchy gothic.

Post and telegraphs:

letter-boxes: [Pillar letter boxes (. PB)].

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Weighing Machines.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Extensive use of gothic for churches, antiquities, and in title. Ornate direction pointer, with 'EWS' worked into boss.

Arms and heraldry:

dedicee of map, municipal: [Dedicee prominently above title-cartouche; town arms less so in the four corners].

Cemeteries:

shown

Geodetic notes:

Latitude and longitude and magnetic variation, 'as specially furnished from the compass department of the Admiralty', and mean time after Greenwich (4m 33s)

Dedicee of map:

Most Noble Henry Pelham Clinton, Duke of Newcastle, K.G., &c, Lord Lieutenant.

Stated measuerments:

other: Table at bottom of map gives levels at 15 places (mostly churches and public buildings): datum level is 'Summer level of Trent at Bridge'.

Ordnance Survey's

1879-81

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560