Plymouth-1865 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18741

Map Date:

[1865]

Repository reference:

West Country Studies Library WES.1865.HAN

Town name:

Torpoint, Devonport, Stonehouse, Plymouth

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX480540

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 4555

Map title:

'Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport.'

Comments on map:

In A handbook for travellers in Devon and Cornwall, 5th edn, London: Murray, 1863, f.p.70-1: evidently woodblock; also in ed 8, f.p.112-3: apparently unaltered.

Scale:

1:30,000

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

20.6 x 13.9

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

important roads only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards: [Dockyards shown in detail, but lack of descriptions].

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls, misc.: Ordnance Land on north-east side of Devonport [cf Exeter 18737], Victualling Yard, military hospital.

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough

Known copies of map:

BL 10028.c.8, West Country Studies Library [1863: 5th ed]; BL 10028.c.9, West Country Studies Library [1865: 6th ed]; BL 10028.c.10, West Country Studies Library [1872, ed 8].

Railways:

routes, named: No station.

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560