Nottinghamshire-Worksop-1856 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

17237

Map Date:

? 1856

Repository reference:

Nottinghamshire Archives WS 2/1R, 2R

Historic county:

Nottinghamshire

Town name:

Worksop

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK588788

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 6079

Comments on map:

Divided into two parts, north and south of River Ryton. Hickson signs as surveyor to local board. General Board of Health stamps, 19 February 1856 (black) and 29 August 1857 (green) on south part; -April 18-- on north part. Some evidence of later additions, e.g. the sewage works and some buildings. 'Prescribed Scale of 10 feet to a Mile, or 44 Feet to an Inch.' No datum or list of abbreviations and conventions supplied.

Scale:

1:528

Map-maker:

? John Hickson [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

371 x 195, 438 x 193

Number of parts:

2

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, land-use, utilities

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, archways, stables/coach houses, walls

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown, basins/docks, warehousing, wharf, other: Weighing Machine, earthworks.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, sanitary hazards, sewage disposal, misc: Lamp Post, Pump, Wells, Prior Well, Sluice for flushing; abbreviations: RS, privy (o), WH, KS, SG, S, G [grate, with double-box]. Sewerage outfall shown with yellow-brown 'masonry' effect.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Nottinghamshire Archives WS2/1-2R.

Industry:

food/drink, textiles, warehousing, uncertain: Workshop.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, goods depots, named, platforms, passenger stations: Coal drops appparent.

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Castle Hill ([arger hachures, some black], Abbey Gateway.

Crosses:

C

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Ruin.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, other: Bench marks to 0.01 ft; 70.5 bed of stream, 71.0 surface of water.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560