Shropshire-Whitchurch-1859 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20500

Map Date:

1859

Repository reference:

Shropshire RO 380/34

Historic county:

Shropshire

Town name:

Whitchurch

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ541417

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 5145

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Whitchurch and environs in the county of Salop, 1859. Earl Brownlow Lord of the Manor.'

Comments on map:

Fields numbered: reference on map. Whole town mapped, though most of it not part of Brownlow estate.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

Thomas B. New, Surveyor, Whitchurch [? sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

126.5 x 146.5

Number of parts:

2

Legends:

colours: Estate colours.

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, owners: Brownlow lands green, glebe purple.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

Shropshire RO 380/34.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations: Fences only: coloured as roads.

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1879

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560