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Oxfordshire-Oxford-1837

CBTM:
18358
Map Date:
? 1837
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 5.b.4
Historic county:
Oxfordshire
Town name:
Oxford
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SP513063
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 5206
Map title:
'The City and University of Oxford'.
Comments on map:
For Moule's Atlas (1837, etc). First published in November 1830: see Tony Campbell, 'The original monthly numbers of Moule's English Counties', The Map Collector 31 (June 1985), 26-39, pp 36-7.
Scale:
1:8640*
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
19.0 x 25.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
important roads only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Mills:
(unspecified type)
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls
Welfare and charitable:
infirmaries, workhouses
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges, observatories
Woodland:
scattered tree cover: Including Christ Church Walk.
Known copies of map:
BL 2062.d, BLML Maps 5.b.4, BOL C17 d.25, G.A.Oxon a.41(49), G.A.Oxon a.41 (50), J.Maps 279[44], CUL *** [1837]; CUL *** [1838]; BOL G1/C16.6 [1992: in Ashley Baynton-Williams, Town and city maps of the British Isles 1800-1855, London: Studio Editions, 1992]; BOL C17 c.23 [1842/1990: in The County Maps of Old England, pb Studio Editions]; CUL Syn.4.84.67 [1845: in Barclay's Universal English Dictionary]; BL 12882.h.10 [1851: In Barclay's Universal English Dictionary].
Industry:
paper/print: University Printing Office.
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, museums, libraries/newsrooms
Antiquities:
Part of the Old Fortifications, Remains of Ruly Abbey.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom of map: vignettes of Christchurch College and 'Oxford from the north.'
Borders:
decorative: Decorated gothic-arch effect: very much 1830s-off-the-shelf.
Arms and heraldry:
university colleges, municipal: [Including arms of university and colleges].
Ordnance Survey's
1873-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897-8
1:2500
1:10,560
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