Oxfordshire-Oxford-1883 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20400

Map Date:

1883

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 9.b.34

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:

'Plan of Oxford Local Board District 1883.'

Comments on map:

Noted as reduced from Ordnance Survey 25-inch, and stylistically rather similar. Note about boundary sources, including that in places has been necessary to differ from OS; notes about acreages and circumference.

Scale:

1:5280

Map-maker:

W.W. White, M.Inst. C.E. Surveyor to Oxford Local Board [author], Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, London [pr].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

123 x 132

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Colouring:

roads, water, boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Frontages only in built-up area.

Mills:

watermills

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, water works

Places of Worship:

incomplete Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries, misc: St Marys Home, Asylum.

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges, observatories, misc: Clarendon Laboratory.

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, misc, boundary markers: Local Board district.

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 9.b.34, BOL C17:70 Oxford (10), BOL C17:70 Oxford (49), CUL Maps.C.81.88.1, Oxfordshire Archives CH.XXIV/40 [originals]; BOL C17:70 Oxford (16) [photo, c.1:14,500].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, museums, libraries/newsrooms, ice-skating, art galleries

Parkland:

botanic gardens

Waterbodies:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1873-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897-8

1:2500

1:10,560