Oxfordshire-Oxford-1855 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20397

Map Date:

? 1855

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 1.aa.37

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:

'Dewe's pictorial plan of the University & City of Oxford'.

Comments on map:

Letterpress 'A walk through the University and City of Oxford' suggests that aimed at the tourist market. Map undated: latest date in letterpress 1854. May not be strictly to scale. Sticker on back indicates that map is printed on 'Chapman's Patent Paper-Cloth sold by Spalding & Hodge, 145, Drury Lane & W.L. Smith & Co. 32 James St Covent Garden'. 'Glamorous' public buildings, etc, shown pictorially (i.e. not gaol, workhouse or gas works).

Scale:

1:3000*

Map-maker:

J. Fisher [dr, eng], I. & R. Dewe, Oxford, Tilt & Bogue, London [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

33.8 x 35.3

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

Buildings: Actual frontages of buildings (cross) and those most notable (asterisk).

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, infirmaries

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges, observatories

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BOL G.A.Oxon a.41(63) ['1840']; BOL G.A.Oxon a.41 (63a) ['1845']; OxCL MP ??? [1840s]; BLML Maps 1.aa.37, BOL J.Maps 157 [1855?: Dewe's pictorial plan]; BOL G.A.Oxon 16o 186 [1859]; BOL G.A.Oxon 16o 166, G.A.Oxon a.41(62) [in An easy guide to Oxford], CUL Maps.d.81.86.1 [1860]; BOL G.A.Oxon 8o 147/4, BOL G.A.Oxon a.41(62) [1865: pb T. & G. Shrimpton: in Dewe's easy guide to Oxford]; BL 10360.aa.86, OxCL MP 177 [1867/8: T.&.G. Shrimpton (pb): in Easy Guide to O]; BOL G.A.Oxon 8o 161/17, [1875: pb Thos Shrimpton & Son, in The pictorial and historical gossiping guide to Oxford]; BOL Johnson d.4436 [1876.c: pb Thomas Shrimpton & Son, in Shrimpton's penny reliable Oxford guide]; BOL C17:70 Oxford (84), J.Maps 224 [20] [1880: pb A.T. Shrimpton]; BOL G.A.Oxon 8o 1426 [1882: pb A. Thos. Shrimpton & Son: Shrimpton's pictorial plan of the university and city, c.1:2500, in Shrimpton's sixpenny pictorial and historical gossiping guide to Oxford, ed 3]; BOL G.A.Oxon.a.41(65) [1885: Shrimpton [pb]: Pictorial plan]; BOL G.A. Oxon 8o 453 [1889: sixpenny gossiping guide, ed 5].

Industry:

paper/print: [University Printing Office].

Gardens:

shown: [College gardens].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms, art galleries

Parkland:

botanic gardens, private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Decorative cartouches:

pictorial 'realistic': Title on slab with arms above and vignette of city in background.

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right, combined with title: north-east view from Holywell Meadow.

Monuments:

memorials, (pictorial): [Martyrs Memorial].

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Arms and heraldry:

university colleges, municipal

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1873-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897-8

1:2500

1:10,560