Oxfordshire-Oxford-1856
CBTM:
22398
Map Date:
[1856]
Repository reference:
BL 7560.g.25
Historic county:
Oxfordshire
Town name:
Oxford
Map type:
Health Hazard
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SP513063
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 5206
Map title:
'Map of Oxford, to illustrate Dr Acland's memoir on cholera in Oxford in 1854, showing the localities in which cholera and choleraic diarrhoea occured in 1854, and cholera in 1832 & 1849; together with the parts of the town described as unhealthy, by Ormerod, Greenhill & Allen, and a writer in the Oxford Herald; the parts remedied since the date of their descriptions; the districts still undrained; the parts of the river still contaminated by sewers, in 1855; and the contour levels.'
Comments on map:
Plate 1, f.t.p. in Henry Wentworth Acland, Memoir on the Cholera at Oxford in the year 1854, London: Churchill, Oxford: Parker, 1856. F.p.21 is Plate 2, sketch map (1:12,000*) showing the first 30 places where cholera appeared in 1854: similar cover to the manuscript map [Exeter 22391]. Distinctly 'handwriting' style, as though written directly onto the stone, rather reminiscent of Exeter 22391.
Scale:
1:6000*
Map-maker:
Messrs Parker, Oxford [pr].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
62.3 x 45.7
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
altitude information, colours, diseases: Contours.
Colouring:
Buildings, water, other: Undrained districts: pale green. Outline brown: building infill lighter brown; title, contours and cholera cases in 1854 black.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Colleges emphasised by double-ruling.
Mills:
watermills
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, incidence of disease: Cases of choleric diahorrea and of cholera in 1854 (black); cholera cases in 1832 and 1849 (blue); parts described by Ormerod, wholly and partly remedied; contaminated streams (brown edging) and points of contamination (brown half-disks).
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only: Open crosses.
Defence and military:
AJ
Welfare and charitable:
infirmaries, workhouses
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges, observatories
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Public/administrative boundaries:
areas named (no boundaries shown): Parshes named: no boundaries shown.
Known copies of map:
BL 7560.g.25, BOL 1562 d.8=R.S.L. [in book], C17:70 Oxford (14, (15) [evidently loose].
Industry:
paper/print, textiles, timber
Railways:
routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
museums, baths/spa
Parkland:
botanic gardens, private parks and ornamental ground
Waterbodies:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Stated measuerments:
contours, spot heights: To 0.01 ft: contours are at 5ft below datum at Carfax, 49.64, so are 44.64, 39.64, etc.; also Flood lines indicating highest flood levels.
Tenement boundaries group:
less built-up parts only
Ordnance Survey's
1873-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897-8
1:2500
1:10,560
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