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Shropshire-Wem-1834

CBTM:
20512
Map Date:
1834
Repository reference:
Shropshire Records Centre, Local Studies Library
Historic county:
Shropshire
Town name:
Wem
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ514290
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 5630
Map title:
'Plan of Wem from actual survey 1834.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopy. 'Sold at Wem, and by John Wood, Surveyor, Caernarvon.' Lists of post miles, fairs and races.
Scale:
1:1584
Map-maker:
John Wood, Surveyor, Caernarvon [sv, pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
51.2 x 43.2
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly: Draw Well House seems to be a proper name.
Buildings:
shown
Mills:
windmills
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Known copies of map:
Shropshire RRC [Library] (photocopy).
Gardens:
shown
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown
Waterbodies:
shown
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1879
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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