Oxfordshire-Oxford-1870 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22136

Map Date:

? 1870

Repository reference:

BOL G.A.Oxon.a.41(68)

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:

'Circuit of one mile and a half from Carfax, Oxford.'

Comments on map:

Dated c.1865-70 in pencil: cheap-looking lithography. Scale indicates 1:15,840, comparative measurement gives 1:12,672. Evidently from a book: most buildings are numbered, but there is no reference on the map.

Scale:

1:12,672*

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

33.0 x 33.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, water works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries, misc: Asylum.

Education and academic:

observatories

Known copies of map:

BOL G.A.Oxon a.41(68) [1870.c]; BOL G.A.Oxon a.41(77) [1878: Oxford University Gazette [pb]: Limit of residence within the University]; BOL C17:70 Oxford (17) [1888: Oxford University Gazette [pb]: Limit of residence within the University].

Industry:

paper/print

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

museums

Parkland:

public parks

Antiquities:

Castle.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [A few rural houses].

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1873-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897-8

1:2500

1:10,560