Plymouth-1879 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18737

Map Date:

? 1879

Repository reference:

West Country Studies Library B/PLY.1.1879.WRI

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 W.H.K. Wright, Illustrated handbook to Plymouth, Stone house & Devonport, with a new map, New & enlarged edition, Plymouth: W.H.Luke, n.d.: advert facing title is dated 1879. Map is quite different from Exeter 18738.

Scale:

1:18,000

Map-maker:

W.H. Luke, Bedford St, Plymouth [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

36.5 x 22.6

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards: [Dockyard shown in detail, including steam yard, basins, offices, store houses, victualling yard and mast pond].

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, misc.: [Including various batteries: Devonport landward wall shown, with Ordnance Land to east].

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough

Known copies of map:

BL 10360.e.2, West Country Studies Library B/PLY.1.1879.WRI [1879]; BL 10360.cc.41 [1885].

Industry:

ship yards, rope walk, misc: Starch Works.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations: Includes 'Luggage Branch of S.D.Ry. to Sutton Pool'.

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground

Commons:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Monuments:

obelisks, (pictorial)

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown

Street tramways:

routes shown

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1857-9

1:2500

1:10,560

1884

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-3

1:2500

1:10,560