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Shropshire-Ludlow-1835

CBTM:
20507
Map Date:
1835
Repository reference:
Shropshire Records Centre, Local Studies Library
Historic county:
Shropshire
Town name:
Ludlow
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO511747
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SO 5772
Map title:
'Plan of Ludlow Shropshire, 1835.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopy of original in Ludlow Museum. Reference to post miles and fairs: note of 1831 population below reference to public buildings.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
John Wood, Surveyor, Edinburgh [sv].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
46.0 x 54.5
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, mental, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
Ward
Known copies of map:
Shropshire RRC [Library] (photocopy of original in Ludlow Museum).
Industry:
textiles
River and foreshore features:
springs: [Boiling Well].
Gardens:
shown
Magnetic data:
diagram
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Incomplete in more built-up part].
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Weigh House.
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1883
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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