Rutland-Uppingham-1839 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21075

Map Date:

1839

Repository reference:

Leicestershire RO DG 37/50 [location: 89/46]

Historic county:

Rutland

Town name:

Uppingham

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP866996

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 8604

Map title:

'Plan of Uppingham

Comments on map:

Usual Wood style, with notes on left on post miles, fairs, banks and population in 1811, 1821 and 1831.

Scale:

1:2376*

Map-maker:

John Wood, Land Surveyor, 53 Threadneedle St, London [author], T. Underwood Lith. 88 New St, Birmingham [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

61.7 x 43.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, partly

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, misc: Wash Pond.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses: [Old Work Ho.].

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

Leicestershire RO DG.37/150 [original]; BLML maps 4855(1) [photo: BM Yellow 11 Jul 34, slightly cropped].

River and foreshore features:

misc: Town Spring.

Magnetic data:

diagram

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Road transport:

wagon office

Waterbodies:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560