Shropshire-Ludlow-1862 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20508

Map Date:

1862

Repository reference:

Shropshire Records Centre, Local Studies Library

Historic county:

Shropshire

Town name:

Ludlow

Map type:

Utility

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO511747

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 5772

Map title:

'Map and geological sections of the borough of Ludlow, shewing the lines of new sewers and the new cattle market, designed and carried out by T. Curley, C.E., F.G.S. 1862.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy of uncertain provenance.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

T. Curley, C.E., F.G.S. [sv], Standidge & Co., Litho., 36 Old Jewry, London E.C. [lith], E.J. Partridge, Broad St, Ludlow [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

74 x 101 [overall: map 74 x 62].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

altitude information

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits, gas works, sewers, misc: [One Conduit], Filtering and Deodorising Tank.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Parish church in gothic.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Shropshire RRC [Library] (photocopy).

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, platforms, rails, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Site of Monastry.

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

At top and bottom: geological sections, 1:720.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Cemeteries:

shown

Geodetic notes:

Base Line of Trigonometrical Survey.

Stated measuerments:

spot heights, other: Conduit diameter; spot heights mostly to 0.1 ft.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560